Chris Smith Quotes
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I'm a computer scientist by training. I'm also the author of three books, all of which endorse the use of biotechnology to improve the human condition. In the most recent of these, 'The Infinite Resource,' I talk about the power of innovation to save the world.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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I like to discover new things.
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The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.
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My first memories of music were country music and Ronnie Milsap. Where I grew up, it was what you listened to. And anything else, you were somewhat out of place.
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Cobbled streets and no shops open past six o'clock, a communal life that seemed to revolve around church, and where you could often hear bird song and nothing else: Gaia felt as though she had fallen through a portal into a land lost in time.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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For one country is different from another; its earth is different, as are its stones, wines, bread, meat, and everything that grows and thrives in a specific region.
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I believe in the sanctity of human life, from the womb to the tomb.
