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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My inspiration is R. Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Prince - for the vocals, anyway.
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If you can't get cell phone service in your living room, then your particular provider is failing you. You should have the option to find a network that does work.
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I've been to enough other countries in the world to know what happens when you have socialized single-payer health care. It works. People don't get sick as much. They don't lose their life savings with a catastrophic illness like cancer or AIDS.
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!
