Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes
Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can't think of too many liberal democracies engaging in counterfeiting, drug running, missile proliferation, and just about any other illegal activity you can think of as North Korea does.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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Carol Burnett was particularly funny. She swore for the first time on television on Larry Sanders.
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Science was many things, Nadia thought, including a weapon with which to hit other scientists.
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How in heaven's name can a nation with a $1 trillion surplus threaten so much scientific research so vital to its future?
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It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
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People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.
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All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.
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I prefer clothes that are simple, well-cut, but with one major extravagance. Something with the sleeves, with the skirt, but nothing too fussy, too flashy.
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I always played games with my friends, but as I got older, my friends stopped playing.
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I'm going to disappear again.
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I think if you're consistent in this league, you'll win a lot of ball games.
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The state has no wealth it hasn't stolen, and the state has no assets whatsoever, except those which individuals have created in the first place and the state has taken.
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OK, number one. There, as I know of, there is no such thing as skin bleaching... I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK? But, when people make up stories that I don't want to be who I am, it hurts me. It's a problem for me, I can't control it.
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I think that if a writer doesn't use her voice, be it in her writing or online or in real life, then what is the point of having one?
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President Obama and I both believe we don't have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.
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There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is 'The Meditations.' It's not that I agree with either views expressed in the books, but I believe ideas and thoughts of older generations can offer food for thought for the current generation.
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Knackered inmates are easier to control than pumped-up ones. And dead inmates are even easier to control, if you follow me.
