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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In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair and jeweled fan, I too am a rare Pattern.
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These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.
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I have a big problem with conductors who gesture a lot.
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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.
