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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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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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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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.
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I know a lot of people love applications on their phone, but I'm like, 'Yeah, I understand the nice experience, but there's something about it that doesn't flow well.' Opening an app, closing it, moving to something else. There's something about the open web that's very free flowing.
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Let us walk into the conference room as equals and not second class citizens.
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In the Dead Sea Scrolls, there are many Aramaic texts from the time of Jesus, so one can get a pretty good idea of what the language of Jesus looked liked.
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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.
