Alexander Smith Quotes
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I have not fully had the opportunity to evaluate the impact of cameras in the courtroom.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
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I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.
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I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
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I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.
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Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
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I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?
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The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
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Enough of this intolerable inanity! I propose that such loquacity passes beyond the scope of the nuisance and over the verge of turpitude.
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Emotional Amoral Egoism indicates that ethnic conflict should be understood in terms of a reaction to a failure to satisfy a group’s basic physiological, security and ego needs due to discrimination, experienced by a group whose relations are premised, above all, on cultural affinities.
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If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
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There are some who believe that secularism and Islam are not compatible. But Muslims should show everyone that this is not the case. It's up to them to show that you can be French and Muslim and still respect secular rules.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that there are some things so precious, some things so eternally true that they are worth dying for. And if a person has not found something to die for, that person isn't fit to live!
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If possible, try to talk good about others, always. By telling good about another person, you will help yourself and another person.
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Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
