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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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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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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All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.
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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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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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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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I belong to this notebook and this pencil.
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There's always some promoter having an '80s night, saying, We'll supply the band. All you can drink.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Those things that are precious are saved only by sacrifice.
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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.
