Jorja Smith Quotes

When I first moved to London, I used to pretend to be on the phone. I used to talk about stuff that was going on out loud. To my phone! I don't do that anymore!

Jorja Smith

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One day, when my son was eight, he came into the kitchen while I was cooking and said: 'You put bad words in your books, don't you?' No doubt he had overheard my mother, who often tells people who ask about my work: 'Well, you'll never find her books in the Christian bookstore.'

Jill McCorkle

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I was working with a great actress - a superior artist in every way - and she really liked Celine Dion. I tried very hard, but I couldn't understand it. I just can't listen to Celine Dion! So I guess music is a deal breaker.

John Cusack

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The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates

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I've had the opportunity to experience firsthand how tech companies can help people in their daily lives.

Ruth Porat

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Expressions of solemn testimony have long been important to the children of God upon the earth.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The present basic philosophy is nuclear deterrence.

Joseph Rotblat

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They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.

Chuck Feeney

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I don't think I have regrets.

Sean Maher

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It's nothing like changing or helping a person find themselves, but who would've thought that I would make it to a point in my life where somebody would be naming a damn burrito after me.

Richard Cabral

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February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can't begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it's so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it's so great.

Lionel Shriver

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The idea that somehow the way forward is to abandon the past, to me, is preposterous and both undesirable and unrealistic.

Ken Liu

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