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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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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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
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The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
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Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.
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I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.
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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.
