Elizabeth Oakes Smith Quotes
We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
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Working with Rosshan Andrews has been wonderful.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
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The worth of a life is not determined by a single failure or a solitary success.
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Never permit yourself to indulge in cheap flattery, which often times means to merely satisfy the individuals vanity and sometimes to ingratiate the flatter into the good graces of the flattered.
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Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
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I might be one of the very few people in this industry who doesn't have a 'me too' story.
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Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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I do not doubt that our country will finally come through safe and undivided. But do not misunderstand me... I do not rely on the patriotism of our people... the bravery and devotion of the boys in blue... (or) the loyalty and skill of our generals... But the God of our fathers, Who raised up this country to be the refuge and asylum of the oppressed and downtrodden of all nations, will not let it perish now. I may not live to see it... I do not expect to see it, but God will bring us through safe.
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In order to invent, one must yield to the indeterminate within him.
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My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous.
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We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
