Brad D. Smith Quotes
I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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If you go to a paintball subreddit, paintball companies can advertise to you.
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The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'
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And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
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If there's a 13- or 14-year old kid who is yearning for something beyond the social forces in his own world, in his own neighborhood, the library is the only place where he can go to find that. It was exciting and thrilling to me all the time I worked in the library. It's such a force for social good and it can do so much.
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An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time.
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My first job was working in a dress shop in Los Angeles in 1940, for $7 a week.
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I really like Holly Williams. I've said that a bunch, but her song 'Drinkin',' I just love it.
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I grew up in a small town in West Virginia called Kenova. It's the city where the plane crashed from Marshall University. I watched the mountain burn, and my cousins were the volunteer firemen. I was 6 years old at the time.
