Arthur Smith Quotes
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I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.
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I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.
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Cricket is a pressure game, and when it comes to an India-Pakistan match the pressure is doubled.
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I decided I would go to Chicago and try my luck as a writer after those eight months as a fireman.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
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I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.
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I couldn't even get an audition for network TV at home in Ireland.
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I'm still walking around New York like a tourist staring up at all the skyscrapers. I wave at people, I shake hands, I help ladies with strollers.
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My mom went to that same doctor and got a butt lift. It's a little too lifted, I think, alright. Now every time she farts only dogs can hear it.
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He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.
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FORM = STRUCTURE = PLACE
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I want government small enough to fit inside the Constitution.
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There's a real self-serving element to hip-hop that threatens its life span.
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Andre Recke and I and my mom worked very hard to really get good music that I related to and was age-appropriate for me and wasn't just cheesy pop stuff.
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Overhead shone the great star of the constellation of Lyra, destined to be the polar star for men who will live tens of thousands of years after we have ceased to be.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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I've lectured at the Harvard Business School several times.
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Slavery is the most insane thing... I don't know that we've ever seen in history, but it's got to be close. The idea of slavery is such a base impulse. It's like, "I'm going to kidnap you and then you're going to do everything I want." Like, what? And then there's the historical aspect. It had a huge effect on human history.
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When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.
