Liam Smith Quotes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of the Analytical Engine bear upon questions of abstract and speculative science rather than upon those involving everyday and ordinary human interests.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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I like the gritty parts of fashion, the design, the studio, the pictures.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.
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People prefer doing films. That is not the case with me. I don't do theatre because I have to but because it makes me feel alive. I enjoy the whole process of rehearsing, though repetition can make it tedious.
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There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.
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When I go out, I love steak and caviar.
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Life on a factory farm is well-nigh unbearable for the animals or birds, and it is often foul for the women and men who process the meat that results - especially in factories for chicken parts. But do not sentimentalize. Do not imagine barnyard life is a bowl of cherries.
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A song without music is a lot like H2 without the O.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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Evangelicals too often fall short in their actual teachings about Judaism.
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Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
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People believe what they want to believe. You have to run your race and be proud of the person you see in the mirror.
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Raising children should mean helping them to become what they already are in God’s eyes.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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I will look for the knockout because that's the way I fight.
