Liam Smith Quotes
My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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I'm not really a fan of Valentine's Day. I think it can be romantic doing nothing on Valentine's Day. It's more romantic than being given a big bunch of flowers that everyone else is doing.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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I dig all kinds of competition.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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People work hard.
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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I'm accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults.
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The moral task of man is a process of spiritualization. All creatures are go-betweens, and we are placed in time that by diligence in spiritual business we may grow liker and nearer to God. The aim of man is beyond the temporal - in the serene region of the everlasting Present.
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For the first time, I am ashamed to be a German.
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My mum says part of the reason we moved house, it was a rough area at the time, was down to that - they wanted to help me.
