Liam Smith Quotes
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.
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I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the water on one side of the ocean, it can create a tidal wave on the other side.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'
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I've had my share of struggle. I believe, never take success to your head or failure to your heart.
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When you're CEO, you have to have two conditions: first, shareholders need to trust you and want you to head your company. The second is that you need to feel the motivation to do the job. So, as long as both are reunited, you continue to do the job.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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I'm often stunned when I come up over Mulholland, and I'm looking down at the Valley, and I can see for thirty miles; I can see the mountains, or all the way to the ocean.
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I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.
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If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job.
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My grandma was a church organist for 40 years, and she got me into jazz music and great songwriters, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, all those folks. I can't do it, but I have a profound respect for it.
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Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.
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Give me the respect I deserve.
