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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 24, 1948

Topics

Always Pigs Wonderful Who Like

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Work Hard Work Sweat More Hard Gods

One of the things that's fun about TV is it grows, and you set goals and aim towards stuff, and one of the writers has an idea, and you say, 'Ooh, that's so much cooler. Let's do that instead.' It's so much more fluid and organic that way, and that's the most fun part about it.

Goals Fun You Say Aim Way

I can't sing, like, I can't saaang. I'm no Luther! That to me is singing. Being able to hit a note doesn't mean you can sing.

Me Singing You Mean Being Sing

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

Action Design You Different Shooter

Some people take the view that the universe is simply there, and it runs along - it's a bit as though it just sort of computes, and we happen by accident to find ourselves in this thing. I don't think that's a very fruitful or helpful way of looking at the universe.

People Looking Think Universe View

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Day People World You Every Day Know

I'm attracted to things that are different than the average run-of-the-mill stuff.

Average Things Different Stuff Than

What farmers require is, that the prices should be moderate, and the markets steady; and for this reason I did, in 1826, 1827, and 1828, take the course which I would now recommend to the House.

House Now Farmers Reason Steady

Sometimes we let life guide us, and other times we take life by the horns. But one thing is for sure: no matter how organized we are, or how well we plan, we can always expect the unexpected.

Life Plan Unexpected Sometimes Take

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

Work Music Talent You Results See

ITC works to help firms in poor countries become more competitive and overcome the barriers that are keeping their goods and services out of international markets.

Arancha Gonzalez

Help Poor Become Overcome Barriers

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Phyllis McGinley

Tolerance Call Label Those Views

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