Colin S. Smith Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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My brain doesn't like to be quiet.
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Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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In a society that tries to standardize thinking, individuality is not highly prized
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I try to ensure my daughters are not spoilt. They are very aware of how lucky they are and appreciate it. We have had some lean years, so they know it's not all about luxury, travel, and hotels. They are grounded, and I'm grateful for that.
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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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Carpe per diem - seize the check.
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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me. Alice Munro, I felt that way about from an early time. Grace Paley.
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The natural beauty of the earth made hard for me to consider the pathetic struggle of humans on the face of it. The great release of death, I thought, was not from the bondage to our lovely planet- who could ever wish to leave this extraordinary place?- but from one another.
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There is no growth without change, and there is no meaningful change without risk.
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Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in.
