Ian K. Smith Quotes
I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I think George Allen from Virginia was a distinguished governor, he's a distinguished senator and head of the Senatorial Campaign Committee and won some significant victories. He is a very attractive guy and would make a tremendous president.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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I used to be vegan. I'm not anymore, but I don't eat hardly any meat. But it's nice for me to go to a place like Chipotle where I can get some fresh veggies, some brown rice, some black beans, and all that kind of stuff.
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Los Cabos has been an amalgam of many cultures that have been coming here. There have been beautiful Jesuit missions for example, in many places around this area. The towns are incredible. But there is a very strong Mexicanized culture here that exists because people from different parts of Mexico have come to live here.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
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I am a big music nerd.
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I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
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I was in group therapy for years but it wasn't the same thing. It was more about growing.
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I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in terms of my relationship to music.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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My chief identity, to my mind, was not 'writer' but 'college dropout.'
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We have to maintain the pressure. I can tell you one thing -- Iran has not enjoyed the last two resolutions we tabled.
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Come then, put away your sword in its sheath, and let us two go up into my bed so that, lying together in the bed of love, we may then have faith and trust in each other.
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I seem to gravitate toward the dark side of things when it comes to directing. I love action, but I love the drama as well.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
