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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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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Reading is a huge part of life.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.
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You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting.
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
