Tobias Smollett (Tobias George Smollett) Quotes
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All my life, it's been the same with men. Being a woman who is famous and adored by men is very hard for any boyfriend to handle. All my boyfriends end up insecure.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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I don't feel like a 27-year-old; I feel I am way mature than someone that age.
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Raindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fit
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As a trader you often walk on the blade. Be careful and don't step off.
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I didn't realize people tip for take-out.
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You're going to hurt, yes. You're going to have tweaks and problems. But you're a football player; you can play through those.
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Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
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I would love to have a song that I wrote by myself to win a 'Song of the Year' award.
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The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.
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I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
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A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on.
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Follow what your head is telling you and work hard. That's the big secret.
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You have far more courage than you think you do.
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Governments are mandated by international law to protect people from genocide.
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Get to the end of yourself where you can do nothing, but where He does everything.
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Art in the age of the digital image is completely different from experiencing art in physical form.
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Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.
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Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
