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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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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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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Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.
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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
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It hurts me when seeing a girl cry...I want to comfort them as long as I can...or I'll end up crying too...
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We all know we are unique individuals, but we tend to see others as representatives of groups.
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I just wanted Sadness to be true, to come from a real place. I tried to work from the inside out, going from my gut all the time. I didn't over-analyze it. I just did 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.
