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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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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It's a huge achievement to have anyone wearing your clothes, and when they are in the limelight, it's the best advertisement for your brand.
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I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
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I wound up becoming an A&R man at London Records in the 1990s, during the boom of Britpop, the last great gold rush of the music industry. I saw incredible greed and terrible behaviour. I was greedy and terribly behaved.
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There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
