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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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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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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Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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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.
