George H. Smith Quotes
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So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Damien Hirst -
Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
Patrick Ewing -
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.
Quintilian -
There's something about wearing clothes that your great-grandmother might have thought were nice that makes you look older.
Laura Carmichael -
I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
Dan Stevens -
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
M. Ward
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries -
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.
Camille Paglia -
Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.
Sam Altman -
I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.
Harley Viera-Newton -
The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.
Pankaj Mishra -
The best of causes ruins as quickly as the worst; and the road to Limbo is paved with writers who have done everything-I am being sympathetic, not satiric-for the very best reasons.
Randall Jarrell
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To those who know thee not, no words can paint!And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
Hannah More -
Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.
Tupac Shakur -
A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
Claude Shannon -
Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!Raffi: And then I kicked him.
Alison Bechdel -
I'm curious about everything - even things that don't interest me.
Alex Trebek -
I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.
Mary Tyler Moore
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I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.
Jessie Matthews -
The things that make you most mad about the world tend to be the things that you hate in yourself.
Emma Stone -
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
Jane Leavy -
I told the truth, and I did it on national TV in a lie-detector test.
Paula Jones -
I am here to give the American people some straight talk about higher education. Some have said we might have cut financial aid for college students. The truth is we have expanded access to college for our neediest students through the record growth of the Pell grant program.
Ric Keller -
One can be committed to conformity or one can be committed to truth, but not both.
George H. Smith