Sydney Smith Quotes
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
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Leaving all the glamour and air-kissing aside, at the end of the day, fashion is about operations and getting things done. The best way to be successful, therefore, is to learn from the people who do it best.
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I don't know what I'm meant to do. I'm not important, am I? I'm not doing anything that makes a difference.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.
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Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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The first thing I wrote was a one-act play that got accepted at a one-act play festival, and I was in it along with Nathan Lane and a couple of other very good actors.
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If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
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Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
