Alexander Smith Quotes
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
Edith Piaf
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
Dalai Lama
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
Barbara Bush
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
Edmond Halley
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
Naveen Andrews
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I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.
Malcolm Mclaren
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
E. W. Howe
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
Tate Taylor
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If you're an independent voter, I'm willing to bet that you were not too happy at the prospect of hitting the polls on November 8, 2016. But let me guess – you did it anyway because after all, it's your civic duty, right?
Fabrizio Moreira
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People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.
Samuel Butler
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
Inbee Park
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I think all of us, at some point early on in our lives, knew that we wanted to create music. We are still really young and sometimes we do feel like we have to prove were as great as all the rest of the bands – old and young. But we just do what we love and people seem to be really excited about it.
Hayley Williams
Paramore
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I believe in breakfast. It's the one meal that my kids usually eat without a fuss, so that's huge. As for myself, I can't function without it, and I see it as a great way to get some healthy greens in, some coffee, and on a good day, maybe even some news of the world via the newspaper.
Samantha Bee
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Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
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The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?
Nancy Pearl
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Writers on etiquette receive a continuous flow of questions on subjects such as 'When is it too early in the season to wear white accessories?' and 'What is the proper gift to send to a family in mourning?'
Letitia Baldrige
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The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Alexander Smith
