Alexander Smith Quotes
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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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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.
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Since we are not in the League of Nations in any case, we do not devote our attention to reflecting on its internal reforms.
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Early on in the Bible story, we will discover the devil taking on the form of an animal. At the center of the Bible story, we will find God taking on the form of a man. The Son of God is the image of God, and so when He took flesh, it was in the form of a man, because man was made in the image of God.
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The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.
