Brian J. Smith Quotes
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I've always respected and appreciated Punk, but we never really hung out. We came from the same route, but we didn't necessarily hang out in the same circles. I've always had a great appreciation and respect for his hard work.
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I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.
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A strong economy depends on a strong middle class, but George Bush has put the middle class in a hole, and John McCain has a plan to keep digging that hole with George Bush's shovel.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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Drugs scared me.
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The biggest danger for any organism is to not identify that it's being threatened. I want to hope that people realize that the source of danger and risk in the Middle East is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the deep radical Islamic vision of forming a global caliphate.
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The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor, I reported in a publication about the thinkers. Our offices were in a former mansion; I worked in what had been the ballroom. As I sat typing my copy, I imagined the dancers waltzing.
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
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Let's make sure that we are working for age-appropriate sex education in our school system.
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I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
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Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
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I read Spider-Man, and that's how I knew about Wilson Fisk.
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'Why don't we just leave this room today forgetting the word 'earmark'?'-June 2007
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But we need not only a new generation of weapons. We need a new generation of thinking. That means strengthening and renewing our key alliances.
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When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost.
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Some people are very good at that, communicating with the world; I'm not sure I'm suited to it.
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'Last Man Standing' has been an amazing treat because it is the best day job you could have because we laugh every day. It lightened me up a bit because I tend to go to some dark places.
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If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
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Defenders see things way different than blockers.
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First season of 'Survivor' - Richard Hatch was fascinating.
