Sydney Smith Quotes
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.
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In the end, the actor's main power is the power to say, 'No.'
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
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It's the same girl-who-has-everything story. You know, the one where she's insecure and scared and unhappy and has marriage problems and doesn't know how to handle stardom and screws up right and left and gets in with the wrong people and goes down the drain.
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The first thing they gave me at 'Sports Illustrated' was a first-class air card. 'And oh, by the way, there's the petty cash drawer,' they told me. 'Take a few thousand dollars for expenses.'
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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I'm young but I'm not stupid.
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If inequalities of taxable wealth backing up a government service are construed as denying equality before the law, then there is no solution but to have every government service whatever financed out of Washington.
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I grew up in South Africa, but like many people at that time, I couldn't bear living in the country. The main motivation for moving to Britain was to get away.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.
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Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.
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Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.
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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
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Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies.
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I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
