Bradley A. Smith Quotes
Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Cobnuts have a fresher flavour than any other nut I know of and go very well with autumnal fruit and light cheeses.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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While I did not get any formal training in acting, every summer vacation, from the age of five, my father would take me to Ooty with him, and I would do films as a child star. I did over 10 films like that, and it was understood that post finishing my education, I would become an actor.
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Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.
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Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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I did a play once where a reviewer said, 'Martin Freeman's too nice to play a bad guy.' And I thought: 'Well, bad guys aren't always bad guys, you know?' When I see someone play the obvious villain, I know it's false.
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Americans may not always live up to the Bill of Rights, but Americans do not ban books.
