Alan Smith Quotes
In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Natural gas is a better transportation fuel than gasoline, so if that's the case, it's cheaper, it's cleaner and it's a domestic resource.
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Well, the crazy thing for me is I think out of anything that's happened in the last year, all the success, people always ask what do you guys do with the money? I don't think they realize we're not really making any money.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of the line they are on.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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It had never occurred to me to write a historical novel, but then I found Hadley in the pages of Hemingway's 'A Moveable Feast' and wanted to know more about her - who she was, how she and Ernest met and fell in love, what it was like for her to be married to such a demanding and stormy force of nature.
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My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.
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In my dreams, I have Keira Knightley's eyebrows.
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Over time, certain people don't want to go on tour, and that can easily break up a band.
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In hindsight, that time out of football gives you the hunger to want to get back to basics and play football.
