Alexander Gordon Smith Quotes
The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.
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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.
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Men are to be estimated, not from what they know, but from what they are able to perform
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Torvalds, Linus (2012-12-23). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2012-12-29.
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Greek myths, early Roman history, is configured around violence against women. And I think we need to get in there, get our hands dirty, face it, and see why and how it was.
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Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
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Without a clear diagnosis of why the candidate or party failed, there can be no clear consensus about how to move forward.
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We strive always to have a beginner's mind.
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To be a striker you need to be in good shape.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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The human mind is a powerful thing in many ways, but in others it's endlessly fragile—it takes only a single moment of pure terror to tear a hole in it, like a finger through a cobweb, leaving you forever just a shadow, a half-person.
