Alexander Smith Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I think that music and visual arts can complement themselves nicely. They do different things - the music forces you into a different mood and perspective whilst the visual stuff can engage you in a more direct cognitive manner.
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You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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Every moment lost is worth the life of a thousand men.
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I feel most people’s sexuality is enormously complicated. That’s what it means to be human. Wouldn’t it be great if we honored that complexity rather than turn it into gossip or ridicule? Wouldn’t it be great if we accepted sexual diversity, in ourselves and others, without condemning it?
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The cine-camera and television set allow us to perceive slow motion. The concept of anything other than real time had never occurred to anybody until the first slow-motion movies were shown, and this radically altered people's perceptions of nature.
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My whole swimming career was about training to beat Michael Phelps in any race I possibly could.
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I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
