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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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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Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.
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A lot of people who don't have anything collect dogs; it's kind of a symbol of having something.
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I've made a point of trying not to play the same part and of moving between theatre and film and TV. The idea is that by the time you come back, you have been away for a year, and people have forgotten you. If you like having time off, which I do, that's a good career strategy. Or at least, it's my strategy to keep my head together.
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The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
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What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
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Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.
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Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seem too insignificant for our concern? Yet in my heart I never will deny her, who suffered death because she chose to turn.
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The safety-valves of the heart, when too much pressure is laid on.
