Ali Smith Quotes
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.Ali Smith
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
Lasse Hallstrom -
I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
Mallory Jansen -
In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
V. S. Naipaul -
I try hope that in the end, we will live in a cancer-free world. We want to live disease-free lives.
Aaron Ciechanover -
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne -
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
Eden Hazard -
I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.
Tamara Tunie -
How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
Vaughn Monroe -
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Hamza Yusuf -
I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
Adam Carolla -
I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
Indira Gandhi
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel -
'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
Ian Mckellen -
I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.
Mandy Moore -
None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.
Quentin Tarantino -
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.
Lapo Elkann -
As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
Alan Mulally -
I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and the Word must be combined. If I look to the Spirit alone without the Word, I lay myself open to great delusions also.
George Muller -
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
George Eliot -
The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
If you can read the world as a construct, you can ask questions of the construct, and you can suggest ways to change the construct.
Ali Smith