Liz Smith Quotes
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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I do watch 'Revenge,' 'American Horror Story' and 'Game of Thrones.' I am behind on all of them. But I do watch them. Those are my go-to shows.
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I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules - I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn't believe I didn't have to answer to anyone.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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You got to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants.
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Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
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Life, struggle, even amidst pain and blood and poverty, seemed beautiful.
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England was the first true colonial power to use its dominion over a large part of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, North America, and many Caribbean islands, in the first half of the 20th century.
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No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
