Dan Smith Quotes
It's fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called 'Other People's Heartache' and 'Other People's Heartache Pt. 2,' which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.
Quotes to Explore
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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Women are sacred.
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The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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I grew up in London, one of four children. We were a very loud family, not a lot of listening, plenty of talking. My mum was a hearth mother: she loved to gather us all around her - Sunday lunches were a big thing. She was very good at thinking on her feet - people used to say she should go into politics.
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As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us.
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I had this whole Slim Shady concept of being two different people, having two different sides of me. One of them I was trying to let go, and I looked at the mirror and smashed it. That was the whole intro of the Slim Shady EP. Slim Shady was coming to haunt me.
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I will never be in the stock market. It's just gambling. I'm a gambler, but I'll gamble on the practicality of things.
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Historically and phenomenologically viewed, dance is the original art. All arts are found within it, in its undivided unity. The image, made dynamic through movement and countermovement, sings and speaks simultaneously.
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It's fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called 'Other People's Heartache' and 'Other People's Heartache Pt. 2,' which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.
