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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In the visual arts, particularly painting, I distrust all those abstractions, those artificial constructions. I have a very simple way of judging them: if I can do them, they are not art.
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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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We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've also done a lot of work for Broadway Care/Equity Fights AIDS. I think it's important because, when we can be of service to others, it only enhances our lives. I've been helped a lot in my life.
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I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
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No matter how thin you slice it, it's still baloney.
