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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Bedtime stories were definitely a big part of my life because I was just so excited my father was talking to me.
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The best way to create value in the 21st century is to connect Creativity with Technology...
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When I was in my late twenties, a friend suggested that, since I was an avid SF reader and had been since I was barely a teenager, that since it didn't look like the poetry was going where I wanted, I might try writing a science fiction story. I did, and the first story I ever wrote was 'The Great American Economy.'
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[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
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The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
