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 was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not... I'd like to think I made my success not at the expense of anyone. Success was accidental.
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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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I like the model of people getting together to make something when they want to do it and not being dictated to by a cycle.
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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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Whatever the majority of people is doing, under any given circumstances, if you do the exact opposite, you will probably never make another mistake as long as you live.
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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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There is a word for people who are kept safe, fed, clothed, housed and sustained fully by others, and that word is SLAVES.
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Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.
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The journey isn't always perfect, but always worth taking.
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You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.
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We're disappointed because you think the neighborhood is safe, it's very quiet here.
