Cyril Smith Quotes
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.
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Sometimes, it's best to let the kids take control - and it's never too early to instill positive eating habits or self-confidence in the kitchen.
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You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I've been cutting my hair ever since college. I try to do that whenever it gets rough. I'm not too cheap to go the barber shop, but I mostly try to do that by myself. I try to keep my skills sharp.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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It seems to me that one of the things that happened with a lot of literary fiction in the 1980s and 1990s was that it became very concerned with the academy and less with how people live their lives. We got to a point where the crime novel stepped into the breach. It was also a time when the crime novel stopped being so metropolitan.
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The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.
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I really admire paintings that look like an actual snapshot - I think that's just extraordinary.
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I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West.
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My kids are no different than anyone else's - they tend to disagree with everything I say!
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I love playing a role where I think I'm right and then you learn you're not.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
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It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.
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Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil.
