Ali Smith Quotes
I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.
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My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd.
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Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.
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I love going after what I want and not stopping till I get it.
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I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.
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Let us all be men and women in full. Let us expect from ourselves more than we think we can give, more than we think we can do and more than we think we already know.
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I don't have a night stand. If I read at night in bed or too close to sleep-time, I lie awake thinking in the dark for hours.
