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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Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while.
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I free slaves because I believe we are all created equal. I just can't think of anything that has a higher purpose than putting value on human life.
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With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.
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Our real debt ceiling isn't decided by Washington; it's decided by Beijing.
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Sometimes I'm very disappointed at some of the people in our family of communicators, whether it be a songwriter or a rapper that's always talking about negativity or a singer or a columnist or a network that basically gets off on just trying to create the negative.
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Whenever you anticipate something - like, "it's my highly anticipated whatever" - you are probably going to be disappointed. I wish we could all Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind ourselves every time we went to the movies and not know anything about anyone.
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Age is just a number. Who cares how old the girl is that I date?
