Alex Smith Quotes
To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of a computer screen! I never touch coffee or other caffeinated drinks.
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Yet my humble capacity has not preserved me from calumnies.
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I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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Though there is such a rich tradition of culture and arts, I have never been invited to perform at a concert in South India.
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.
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What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.
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Friendship is more important than truth.
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To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.
