Michael Smith Quotes

My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.

Michael Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 26, 1932 - October 4, 2000

Topics

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Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Jimmy Durante

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I enjoyed living in Canada, where my husband comes from, because I was treated like any ordinary person. I became a volunteer at my children's school; I went into the classroom. It was very grounding. I got sick of being famous.

Dolores O'Riordan

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I live more than anything else to produce the Games.

Dick Ebersol

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In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.

Conan O'Brien

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Being from the heartland of America, I do not think one should have to go to Washington to seek justice.

Asa Hutchinson

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I just feel this is my planet.

Allen Iverson

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Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for its own sake.

Wole Soyinka

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For one thing I tend not to see myself in various moulds that people fit me into.

Paul Wolfowitz

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I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

Sergey Brin

MountainsPeopleClimbFeelYoung

I was 39 when I did, essentially, a three-quarter sleeve on my left arm. It was very late in life, which is good: I can't think of any decision I made at 19 that I'd be happy with at 39 or even now, at 51.

Nick Wooster

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Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Martin Jacques

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Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Wainwright

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