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.Ali Smith
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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.
Ha-Joon Chang -
Every morning I wake up and thank God.
Aaron Neville -
I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
Olivia Wilde -
Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
Narendra Modi -
One rose says more than the dozen.
Wendy Craig -
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.
Edmund Phelps
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
Urjit Patel -
There's no regrets for me.
Adam Lambert -
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.
Zach Johnson The Fray -
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.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison -
I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
Barry Diller
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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.
Taylor Kitsch -
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh -
As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
Taylor Jenkins Reid -
All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
Baruch Spinoza
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I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
Don DeLillo -
For now we see the beauty of God through a glass, darkly, but then face to face; now we appreciate only in part, but then we shall affirm and appreciate God, even as the living God has affirmed and appreciated us. So now our tasks are worship, mission, and management, these three; but the greatest of these is worship.
N. T. Wright -
The only thing that stays the same is change.
Melissa Etheridge -
Sometimes, when things are going really well, I feel like I've already seen things - it's the flashback feeling in a good way. Like I'm watching a rerun, because I've studied this defense and know what comes next. Now, that is a good feeling, when your mind is working fast because you've studied, and you realize, 'I've seen this before.'
Colin Kaepernick -
In France, the image I had was of a shy girl - a poor lonely girl and not too good-looking. When I went to England, I had another image. I felt the journalists were much more interested in my looks than in my songs.
Francoise Hardy -
A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.
Ali Smith