Alexander Smith Quotes
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What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I'm not predicting; I just love playing with superconductors.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I've already established my (political)machinery. It's like a car. It's fixed already. You just have to get in and drive it.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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One of the things that I really like about young adult fiction is that you can explore the relationships between teens and their parents. I definitely think that teens are a product of their parents. You either end up just like them or you consciously make the decision to be unlike them.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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I'm a thigh-meat dude. Thigh is just the best meat - I don't get chicken breast. I think it's a publicity stunt that we've convinced people it's delicious.
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I love Japan. I love the collision of the modern and ancient worlds coming together in that place. It's so high-tech and cool.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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I am not too proud of having my name associated with some of my restaurants.
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Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
