Ed Smith Quotes
Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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My career is a journey for me, and any journey is incomplete without the struggle.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
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I really hope that I can be as good as some people think I can be. But I may never work again... and that's the reality of the film industry. So, it's nice but I wouldn't want to go into something feeing like I needed to prove that I was good enough to be there. Maybe in some ways, it makes me think: "Do you know what? Some people think I'm alright, so maybe I should go into a job thinking I'm not rubbish." But I don't really think about it.
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People look at me like I'm on my way out of the game. I'm just getting started.
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That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
