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Ian Smith Quotes

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: zimbabwean
Birth: April 8, 1919 - November 20, 2007

Topics

Freedom Courage Justice You Two

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

Architecture School Wonder Why Write

What makes me write is the rhythm of the world around me - the rhythms of the language, of course, but also of the land, the wind, the sky, other lives. Before the words comes the rhythm - that seems to me to be of the essence.

Sky Words Me Wind World Language

The biggest compliment to me is that guys really approach me and they have a connection with me, so there must be something I'm doing that is authentic, otherwise they wouldn't connect with me so strongly. It's a real compliment.

Me Doing Connection Compliment Real

When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student.

Me Growing Up Impossible Student Up

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

Nothing Why Ends Nicely

Really, I'm never much of a goal-setter. Whenever I've tried to make big, solid plans, they don't happen. I'm more into whatever the circumstances are that present themselves, making wise decisions around that.

Wise Present Decisions Circumstances

The Yanukovych regime is a mafia, which regularly threatens, imprisons, murders, or disappears political opponents as well as those whose possessions it covets.

Political Mafia Possessions Well

Some of my biggest commercial musical influences would be people like Merle Haggard, George Jones, of course, Johnny Cash. People that wrote and sang their own stuff, I really admired.

People Cash Own Influences Stuff

Technology requires knowledge and expertise more than it requires money.

Jonathan Raymond

Technology Knowledge Money More Than

A lot of people in the NBA don't even take the game serious or take the same approach that I do.

People Game Serious Same NBA Take

What sets Iris Stevenson apart is her success in a system that in no way supports her - with the hardest possible children to convert.

Success Children Way Possible System

Turning 16 is kind of scary because when you're 16, you go from being a kid and then you can drive and are more of a young adult in a way.

Chloe Grace Moretz

Drive You Go Young Kind Way

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