Alexander Smith Quotes
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More modern poetry is written than read.
P. J. O'Rourke -
It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
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.
Idina Menzel -
I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
Mahalia Jackson
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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.
Larry MacPhail -
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
Mae West -
Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
Saad Hariri -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
Felix Dennis -
I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
Ian Somerhalder
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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.
Aaron Koblin -
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.
Laura Bell Bundy -
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington Irving -
A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
Van Morrison -
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.
Valerie June -
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.
Warren Beatty
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To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.
Richard Meier -
If you live your life as a hostage to everybody else's decision, you either have to live a very narrow life, or you have to spend a lot of time in pain.
Newt Gingrich -
Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
M. Ward -
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend,The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
Lord Byron -
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Amy Poehler -
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith