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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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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Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
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The greatest gift children can give you is that, for the first time, you're not the center of your own universe.
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I don't work a five-day week as a rule, and I've managed to fill that time up. It hasn't been that hard. I volunteer at school. I'm working because I love it. Yet, I don't not envy women who have a stay-at-home job, because you miss stuff.
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I went to college, grad school. I got an M.B.A., had a really cush corporate job. But I was just bored stiff. I didn't fit that mold.
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There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
