Arthur Smith Quotes
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There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I'm not obsessively a follower of fashion in the way I used to be. But I still have all those magazines I bought at the time because I bought ones that felt a little timeless, more like books.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste.
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I have been cooking with preserved lemon for years, using it left, right and centre, but I am still far from reaching my limit.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I can watch a movie and go, 'Oh, my god, that person is acting.' If you just listen to what the other person is saying, your response will always be genuine.
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When you start a business, go for the lowest hanging fruit.
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Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.
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Cyber-enabled theft of trade secrets by state actors in China has emerged as a major threat to our economic and, thus, national security.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
