Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better.
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My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing.
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Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?
