Sydney Smith Quotes
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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The United States is supplying the most modern and sophisticated weaponry to Israel to the tune of billions of dollars every year.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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We Belgians love when we can go to L.A. because the city is amazing and the climate is fantastic.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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Arafat carried out what I consider to be atrocities.
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There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.
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At the end of the day, you know yourself best.
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My mother felt we'd be earning a living during our entire adult lives, and therefore believed we should spend summers in learning activities. Consequently, I got to see a plate glass factory in Pittsburgh, a U.S. Steel plant, and how Heinz made ketchup.
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If you can't sleep, I'll be there in your dreams. I'll be there in your dreams if you can't sleep at all. And in your dreams, I'll touch your cheek And lay my head on your shoulder. Goodbye shadows
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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A house is kind of scary.
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In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.
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If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.
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A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
