Alexander Smith Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Learning in a face-to-face human community, as humans have evolved to do over hundreds of thousands of years, may always be the ideal - especially in an endeavor that is as relationship-driven as business.
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When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.
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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
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I'm not great on the florals. I think you've got to wear what you're happy in and that is fun but isn't mutton dressed up as lamb.
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As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
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Normalcy is not interesting.
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My band and I are even closer. They've grown with me over four years, so we're closer and closer and closer.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
