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've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of 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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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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I told my father to stop smoking around the age of two or three years old and he stopped smoking. So the relationship between the kid and the parent is very powerful, and if you give the kid the right information, it can be very useful to the family.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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When I was 4, I had a schedule. I was playing softball. My brother was playing football. My parents were teachers, and they'd owned businesses. We like to work hard. Work and then books. Books and then work. We just knew that we had to excel. It sounds militant, but trust me, it was fun.
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The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.
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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.
