Albert Richard Smith Quotes
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Organized labor, if they're doing a responsible job, is going to organize the pooling of small amounts of money to protect the interests of the people who are not rich.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
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The great affair, we always find, is to get money.
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Above all, he wanted to stop being a child without using the cheap disguise of becoming a parent.
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Like every child growing up in America, I read 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn.' I liked them well enough, but I didn't love them.
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Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
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For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger;At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there,Troop home to churchyards.
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Listen and attend with the ear of your heart.
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The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.
