Brad D. Smith Quotes
I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Dancing is a beautiful thing.
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What we call fiction is the ancient way of knowing, the total discourse that antedates all the special vocabularies....Fiction is democratic, it reasserts the authority of the single mind to make and remake the world.
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When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
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A film is not something that can be made over the phone or Skype. Creative people meet, spend time together, and then come up with something.
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It's my father's legacy. My father's view was that the public is the employer of these government employees and has the right to know what they're up to.
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Why, you're all grown up! The last time I saw you I was trying to throw thumbtacks into your cradle!
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I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.
