Ali Smith Quotes
We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
Quotes to Explore
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To preserve our sovereign integrity, we must prove to them nobody need tell us how to hold a clean and democratic election.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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There was definitely a time where I did not believe in the Lord. I needed to understand the love of God.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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The most important thing in my life is to live my life and enjoy it - to do what I think is right and what I think is good.
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When we were growing up, we listened to all sorts of music, but the first band that really grabbed all of us live was AFI.
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America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.
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President Obama will go down as perhaps the worst president in the history of the United States!
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We're well past the end of the century when time, for the first time, curved, bent, slipped, flash forwarded, and flashed back yet still kept rolling along. We know it all now, with our thoughts traveling at the speed of a tweet, our 140 characters in search of a paragraph. We're post-history. We're post-mystery.
