Al Smith Quotes
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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What you are comes to you.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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To have been selected to represent Team South Africa at the London 2012 Olympic Games in the individual 400m and the 4x400m relay is a real honor and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
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Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids - and sometimes more than half.
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I want to try doing sportier things, kite surfing and paddle surfing - I think it would give me that extra confidence.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I always knew that I wanted to do something in business and I prepared myself for that.
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In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.
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In working with top leaders and thought philosophers of our time, I will tell you that among their secrets of success is a regular practice of acknowledging and appreciating what they have. It can offer an oracle into the future because it not only tells you where you are, but it also helps clarify where you want to go in life.
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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Virtually every subject is most effectively learned directly from the greatest thinkers, historians, artists, philosophers, scientists, prophets and their original works. Great works inspire greatness. Mediocre or poor works inspire mediocre or poor learning. The great accomplishments of humanity are the key to quality education.
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Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.
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I want a lot of young people to see me in my working environment. I want them to see me being a good person while also running a business. I want young people to aspire to that.
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No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
