Alexander Smith Quotes
If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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Hip-hop is a vehicle.
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Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I can't be disappointed with my first gold in a senior championship, and to score 5000 points, which only one other woman, the world record holder, has got over, I am satisfied.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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I love being able to wear dresses and clothes that make me feel feminine and beautiful, and I love the fact that I don't have to all the time; I can wear a tank and jeans.
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As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.
