George Smathers Quotes
Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.
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I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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Sometimes, by using the most over-the-top, ridiculous plot device you can imagine, you get some interesting little conflicts and cool things that you might not otherwise have a chance to explore.
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Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
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It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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I didn't have a childhood.
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I know who Jack Whittaker is. And some days I don't like who I am.
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I'm so stupid because I refuse to think that I'm getting older. I get up in the morning, and it's like, 'La, la, la, I'm so pretty.' I still mingle with a lot with young people. I even go to college campuses to talk to them because I know how they think. They don't think I'm boring, either. They think I'm cool, but I want them to think I'm hot!
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Dont expect fame to come overnight. That filtered through to me in my own career. Look at Madonna: shes not the best singer in the world, but shes got where she has through hard work.
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The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.
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I love running in nature. I don't like running on the streets, I don't like running in the city, I don't like running on the concrete. I love running in nature, so Jamaica provides a lot of that for me.
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
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He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.
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If you Live in the Past it will Ruin Your Future.
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I don't really listen to Radiohead. I listened to the albums and they just didn't move me in the way, say, John Prine does. His is just extraordinarily eloquent music.
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The more complete the despotism, the more smoothly all things move on the surface.
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China has to move to a more flexible foreign currency trading system, no question about that. You might see two or three moves to widen the band, say to 0.5 percent.
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We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
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Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.
