Adam Smith Quotes
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The whole Hollywood thing where people want to put me into this 'quirky-fashionista, daughter of' category makes me mad because it's promoting something that I don't believe in, and it's not who I am.
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Nature is under control but not disturbed.
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
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I think twerking is overrated.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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I hate being manipulated by song. Don't tell me what I should be feeling. I don't want cellos or violins to be telling me that I should be bawling right now.
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I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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America must realize, there are conditions she must accept in Asia. The first is a diversity of Asian cultures, governments, economic and political systems; the second, that to run against the tide of Asian nationalism is worse than impractical - it is also highly dangerous.
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Shaving half my head was a look that meant I could go punkier with my style.
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Wherever I find love I will accept it.
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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable.
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Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
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There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
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Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?
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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
