Page Smith Quotes
After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.
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Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.
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When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.
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I wasn't very confident about clothes; I was always hunting through racks, never sure what looked right. It can be like that again when you're older.
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I think women's relationships with other women are very complicated and depend on their relationships with their mothers. Mine was fraught with problems. So I didn't necessarily trust women for a long time.
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When 'Midnight's Children' came out, people in the West tended to respond to the fantasy elements in the novel, to praise it in those terms. In India, people read it like a history book.
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When the possessions and households of citizens are no longer honored by the acts, as well as the principles, of their government, then the concentration camp ceases to be one of the possibilities of human nature and becomes one of its likelihoods.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not reveal to a lifelong friend
