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.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Tales

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • Same
  • Influence

• Hip-hop is a vehicle.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Hip Hop
  • Vehicle

• 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.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Important
  • Education
  • Sports

• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

  Washed Out
  • Real
  • Moving
  • Challenge

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• 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.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • End
  • Building

• To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Good
  • You
  • Interview

• 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.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Science

• My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

  

  Larry David
  • Life
  • Me
  • Helps

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Great
  • Understand
  • Flawed

• 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.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • World
  • Woman
  • Gold

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• 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.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • Child
  • Brave
  • Coward

• 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.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Done
  • Know
  • Government

• When liberty returns, I will return.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Liberty
  • Will
  • Return

• There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Broken
  • Wine
  • Drunk

• I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

  

  Neri Oxman
  • Up
  • House
  • Culture

• I work on television and I work in film, and the acting is two different things.

  

  Frank Vincent
  • Work
  • Different

• I always wanted to be an athlete. Then when I realized that I can't run very fast, jump very high, or catch anything, I thought, 'Maybe if this doesn't work out, I can be an actor.'

  

  Geoff Stults
  • Work
  • High
  • Athlete

• To acquire wealth is difficult, to preserve it is more difficult, but to spend it wisely, most difficult of all.

  

  J. Edward Day

• 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.

  

  Alexander Smith
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