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Sydney Smith Quotes

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: June 3, 1771 - February 22, 1845

Topics

Courage Great Ignorant Everything

I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.

Nature Myself Evil Succeed Say True

I have a helicopter that I use for U.K. business trips, and I fly myself. I have a yacht in Antibes in the south of France, which is a sort of indulgence, as we only use it for about four weeks a year. The rest of the time, it is chartered out to people as a business.

Business Time Myself People Fly Out

The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'

Beach French Commissioned Einstein

Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.

Black And White Man Black Better

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire.

Myself Think Shadows Village Guy

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

Feel Guilt Bad Wrong Right Years

You are not always going to have your A game; you might have your D game. You have to find a way to throw strikes no matter what.

Game You Find Way Matter Always

I don't do anything the same every day. Discipline is tough for a guy who is a rebel.

Jonathan Winters

Discipline Day Tough Every Day Rebel

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Free Rich Back Accept Africa Poor

I think I must be the only British actor who's played both Stalin and Trotsky. I need to play Lenin so I can make it a triptych.

Think I Can Play Actor Need British

I think health is the outcome of eating well.

Health Eating Think Well Outcome

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Wislawa Szymborska

Work Good Respect I Am Poetry

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