Dean Smith Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.
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We must take steps to prevent further nuclear weapons development or modernization.
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Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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Acting - you're taking someone else's visions and someone else's inspirations, and it's up to you to portray that to everyone watching the film.
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I did plays in high school, and I usually got cast in the comic role, which I really enjoyed.
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I am a private human.
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Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.
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Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.
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The 'Chainsmokers' found me early on, before anyone knew about 'Hide Away,' and reached out. I heard the demo for 'Don't Let Me Down' and loved it.
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I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will.
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I prefer to play and lose rather than win, because I know in advance I'm going to win.
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I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
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America has exercised its power to insist on elections in Palestine, which Hamas did win. Once they won, we then engaged in a policy not only of ostracism, but by financial boycott, in effect of undermining it, and creating more tension and radicalism and poverty in Gaza, which was susceptible to exploitation by Hamas.
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Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
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We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.
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A family's love is often the best medicine, and in difficult times, I believe that our military families deserve the option of staying together.
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There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.