Ian K. Smith Quotes
People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
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When companies get big, they slow down. They're not as exciting. If you want to get something done, it takes a lot of time and a lot of meetings.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Any New York group can come to L.A. and sell out every show, but an L.A. group who goes to New York might not do the same because the audience hasn't been introduced to the group.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
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On the traditional computer keyboard, I'm a super-fast touch typist. I mastered touch typing in high school.
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I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must be eliminated, the force of nature that's blocking the way for industrial progress, or b) the noble innocent that knows all and is another cliche. I wanted him to be a complicated human being.
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Our problem was an embarrassment of riches. In many cases, we found three or four people qualified to play the role of chairman.
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. The more stupid the man, the larger his stock of adamantine assurances, the heavier his load of faith.
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People like to act like we don't have a legacy of racism here. I think people get really uncomfortable with it. We know that we can't change it unless we address that.
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People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.
