Brian J. Smith Quotes
When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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I sing all the time. But maybe nobody's hearing it, because I'm singing in my car or in my house or whatever. I don't need the roar of the crowd, and I don't need to hear cheers to feel validated.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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I don't like to feel like I'm in a club when I'm in my car and I turn on the radio. Anything that ceases to be a song and just sounds like house music kind of stresses me out.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).
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I feel that whoever isn't feeling settled in their career won't think about their marriage.
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The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.
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In the olden days, a couple could be in every movie together, but it's just not like that anymore.
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Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
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I transformed myself in the zero of form and emerged from nothing to creation, that is, to Suprematism, to the new realism in painting – to non-objective creation.
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... I learned the hard way that just as I no longer have to save anyone, neither do I have to be saved.
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When you think someone really has the upper hand, you realize that someone has been played the entire time, and there's a whole other layer where you think the person who is doing the playing has also been played.
