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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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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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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But because our organization has grown so much and in so many different ways, the delegation process places responsibility and authority on the shoulders of people you can watch grow and watch the way they treat others.
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Our contempt for any particular poem must be perfect, be total, because only a ruthless reading that allows us to measure the gap between the actual and the virtual will enable to to experience, if not a genuine poem—no such thing—a place for the genuine, whatever that might mean.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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You can create some soul out of something that's electronic or mechanical.
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If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them.
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If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
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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.
