Arthur Smith Quotes
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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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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.
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The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.
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When I lived in Baltimore, I would come down fairly often to go to the Hirshhorn, and one of my good friends from high school went to Georgetown. I actually ended up going to Annapolis a lot. I had a car, and it was such a serene place to drive.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
