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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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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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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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
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A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.
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We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.
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The first time I ever felt the necessity or inevitableness of verse, was in the desire to reproduce the peculiar quality of feeling which is induced by the flat spaces and wide horizons of the virgin prairie of western Canada.
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We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
