Alexander Smith Quotes
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.
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If somebody says I'm a leader or notices the things I try to do to be a leader, it's the ultimate compliment.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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Adam Sandler in 'Punch-Drunk Love' is brilliant. Brilliant, brilliant.
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If I make two movies my entire life, and they're two movies that - whether they make a lot of money or two people go to see them - they speak of me, then I consider them incredibly successful. I don't need to be Steven Spielberg.
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Anything unnatural was not naturally believed. Faith, in essence, was unnatural.
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Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy.
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Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
