Al Smith Quotes
You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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I want to be a soldier as my father was.
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I hate Alzheimer's. It is one of the most awful things because, here is a loved one, this is the woman or man that you have loved for 20, 30, 40 years, and suddenly, that person is gone. They're gone. They are gone.
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Entrepreneurship is seen as if you're in Silicon Valley or New York City and starting an app business or a social-media business, which is cool. But what we really have to focus on is people who make things, and how can we fund them, and how can we encourage people to stay in their community and make a difference in their community.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
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They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance.
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The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.
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You take care of you and your family first. Then you go to your neighborhood, and then you spread it on out within the community.
