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 just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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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've been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.
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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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Orthogonality for orthogonality's sake is not something I'm keen on.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.
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The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she got run over by a bus. Very sad.
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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.
