Alex Smith Quotes
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It's very important to always put things in their historical contexts. It teaches important lessons about the country in question.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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I think that celebrities are just people, like everybody else, and they've got the foodie bug in them too.
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Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.
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The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.
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I just like movies, not one particular kind or genre. In fact, movies that are harder to classify I like more.
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I've come to understand that the truth isn't really what's important...what really matters is what people agree is the truth. -Greymane
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Jazz, I mean, music will always move, because it can't become stagnant. Because if it becomes stagnant, it's like a river, it'll kill us all. It has to keep moving, music will always flow.
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As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.
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Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.
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It felt like family from the first time we talked.
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Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer.
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Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.
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My career in the movie business began in Hong Kong, my heart has always been tied to Asia, and it is immensely gratifying to see international recognition for Asian cinema as a whole.
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Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
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I read this book a few decades ago, on a trip to some of the territories of the old Byzantine Empire, during which an emotional relationship came to an emotionally draining end, so it may retain some of the hectic inanity of my personal life, but great works are fractal, reflecting both our grand ambitions and our petty failures.
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All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.
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Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
