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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If you want to do stuff, you have to be able to handle controversy.
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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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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
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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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If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record it for the rest of our long journey. We take perfect snapshots, an album to despair over. We trim the edges and place them in plastic. We tuck the scrapbook away to take out in our ruined times.
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I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest.
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Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.
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We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
