Lillian Smith Quotes
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.
Olusegun Obasanjo
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My mother is incredible. I mean, still is today.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I think that in the end, a talk show is a very different animal.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living with my family, taking care of my house. I want to be a housewife.
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In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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I couldn't believe verse was supposed to be hard. It was a snap for me. I loved Shakespeare.
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For the first few years after I lost weight, I would feel for my hip bones every morning when I woke up so I would know I wasn't fat. It was like pinching myself so I'd know I wasn't dreaming.
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When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
