Nathaniel Smith Quotes
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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With honesty of purpose, balance, a respect for tradition, courage, and, above all, a philosophy of life, any young person who embraces the historical profession will find it rich in rewards and durable in satisfaction.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favor of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.
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For me, I want 10 perfect events.
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I like to think - knowing that it's an enabling fiction - of those moments as fragments from a world to come, a world where price isn't the only measure of value.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
