Ali Smith Quotes
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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There's no regrets for me.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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Every experience makes you a man.
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I go to the gym a lot, and I see these guys, these young actors or models there, really punishing themselves - I mean, just killing themselves. And then I'll see one of them on a billboard, with the artfully messy hair, looking as though it's just natural and easy to have a body like that.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.
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A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
