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 was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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My temptation is emotional, and resisting will further my needed weight loss and strengthen my character. Furthermore, nothing tastes as good as thin feels.
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Looking at the universe as a whole; cosmology, the birth, life and death of the whole universe, we used to have a nice simple model. Then we had to add things like dark energy, and our nice simple picture is getting messier and messier and messier.
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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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.
