Riley Smith Quotes
I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
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As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
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I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.
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Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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Music fills the infinite between two souls.
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I believe a relationship with a country is simply bound to the interests of two countries and not by personal issues.
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Remember that it is not enough to abstain from lying by word of mouth; for the worst lies are often conveyed by a false look, smile, or act.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew that I had to stay active, that I had to keep living as if my life was actually going to unfold naturally because when you stop, when you freeze, and you think about it, that's when the demons come and can drag you down.
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When I look at the arc of my career, my focus is on lyricism, right? I own that.
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The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.
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My real heroes have always been sportswriters.
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And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
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I've never worried about what audiences would accept or had a game plan regarding the career. I never had an idea of how I should look to my fans or anybody else.
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Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.
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I've always been a blue collar guy, and I think it shows in my body of work and the way my career has developed.
