Dave Smalley Quotes
I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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I didn't want to do something typical.
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The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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This crisis of long-term unemployment is having a profoundly damaging impact on the lives of those bearing the brunt of it. We know this thanks to a series of careful studies of the problem conducted in the depths of the 1930s Great Depression.
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I am Afrikaans. It wasn't ever something that I thought about.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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The Champions League is the one thing missing from my career. When I look at the history of the competition and the people that have taken part, the top, top players have all won it. For many, it is why they have been regarded as top players.
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It's no secret that Cuba is a typical Latin American culture in that it has a fair amount of homophobia. Homosexuals have been notoriously persecuted under Fidel's government.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.
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Societies evolve based on new understandings and new science and new appreciation of who we are.
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I didn't have a cup of coffee until I was 27.
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Although the insights we can have in meditation tell us nothing about the origins of the universe, they do confirm some well-established truths about the human mind: Our conventional sense of self is an illusion; positive emotions, such as compassion and patience, are teachable skills; and the way we think directly influences our experience of the world.
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To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
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Live for yourself... there's no one else more worth living for...
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.
