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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Don't give advice unless you're asked.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made.
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I really think the Patriot Act violates our Constitution. It was, it is, an illegal act. The Congress, the Senate and the president cannot change the Constitution.
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There are two sorts of sick consciences, those that are not aware enough of sin and those that are not aware enough of pardon.
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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than secrets in trade.
