Maggie Smith Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers even more than that. That's always been my competitive advantage.
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The Ruts were a great punk rock band from England whose songs were as excellent as their time together was short.
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In the busy haunts of men.
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One of my best friends while shooting 'Roots' was Vic Morrow, the guy that whips Kunta.
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Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
