Arthur Smith Quotes
My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
Quotes to Explore
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I can sing in front of people. I can go on a TV show, live, and not feel like I'm going to throw up.
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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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I'm a single child. I wanted a little brother or a little sister growing up, but when I think about it, I'm happy I'm an only child.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I play golf for a living. I'm grateful for that. It's a beautiful game, provides a great opportunity.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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This whole idea that we address environmental issues by not doing stuff just doesn't work.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
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Being halfway through my life, I think we start feeling less invincible and we start thinking more about the important things.
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If I were writing an article for the newspaper, it would be thesis statement, information, information, supporting arguments. That would be the setup. When I'm making a documentary, the pacing of the film and the way that you sort of switch from character to character - all of those are more about storytelling than straight journalism.
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Climbing is my art; I get so much joy and gratification from it.
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I think when a musician loses their inhibition and dives deep into their soul, that's a prayer. It's so powerful that you will touch people whether it's good or bad.
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My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
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The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.
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My sister-in-law believes that few narratives are so tightly constructed that you can't skip boring bits and still keep abreast of what's going on.
