Chris Smith Quotes
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In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
Rand Paul -
Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.
Tammy Duckworth -
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
Victoria Woodhull -
In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
Ferran Adria -
It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
Beatrix Potter -
There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu
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Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn't do auditions.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
Tamae Watanabe -
Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.
Natalie Clifford Barney -
I've learned to wait 'til an idea is worth making. That's not really a lesson I've learned; I sort of always did it that way. But there's no reason or need to make videos prior to when you make a show, because then you need material for it.
H. Jon Benjamin -
He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass.
Rain -
'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
L. Frank Baum
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Let us honour if we canThe vertical manThough we value noneBut the horizontal one.
W. H. Auden -
'I see . . .' said the vampire thoughtfully, and slowly he walked across the room towards the window. first line
Anne Rice -
So what does it matter where it was when it was hit? We could have sunk it if it'd been tied up on the quayside in a neutral port and everyone would still have been delighted.
Alan Clark Dire Straits -
I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.
Clive James -
But frankly, if there were any real problems, we would have seen them yesterday,
Sam Reed -
If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.
Yasmina Reza
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To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense of shame is to draw close to courage. He who knows these three things knows how to cultivate his own character. Knowing how to cultivate his own character, he knows how to govern other men. Knowing how to govern other men, he knows how to govern the world, its states, and its families.
Confucius -
The hardest thing is to write about people. First and foremost, you have to encounter their humanity. That is the only way you can make them live as characters on the page.
Philip Kerr -
Shamelessly supporting and whitewashing terrible crimes against humanity.
Chris Smith