Walter Smith Quotes
I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I've admired historical clothes like Victorian gowns since I was a child, and it's what motivated me to go into fashion.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I don't mind dating younger men now.
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That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.
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I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
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Sometimes you don't have to say anything. Silence speaks it all.
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One of the most important things is corporate politics. Big corporations are bureaucracies that often promote people who are best at covering their asses. Such people run scared, fearful of any suggestion they can make mistakes. And they surround themselves with others who run the same way. Don't take risks. Find out what succeeds and copy it.
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Simon drives me crazy. We are still arguing.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
