Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I feel great physically. I feel really good.
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Neutrality, as a lasting principle, is an evidence of weakness.
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Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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We can succeed only by concert. It is not, 'Can any of us imagine better,' but, 'Can we all do better?'
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If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.
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I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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I always feel like I'm an actress.
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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
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I was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going.
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Radar Officer: I've lost the sweeps, the bleeps, and the creeps! Explains via vocal sound effectsDark Helmet aside to Colonel Sandurz: That's not all he's lost.
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The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds.
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Old friends, like old shoes, are comfortable. But old shoes, unlike old friends, tend not to be supportive: it is easier to stumble and sprain an ankle while wearing a pair of old shoes than it is in new shoes, with their less yielding leather.
