Big Smo Quotes
I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.
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The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked.
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Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
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I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
