Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes
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I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it's a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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To secure peace is to prepare for war.
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That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.
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I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
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It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele's beautiful, heartbreaking song, 'Hello.' When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head - and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.
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When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.
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I've had it up to my ears with the personal mythology. It's getting kind of personally sickening. The personal stuff just turns out to be misinterpreted. I've had such an earful for so long, it's gotten tedious. I figure if you stay away from it, you're safe.
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Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
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To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
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It's a very difficult thing losing a parent, but I think there's an added complication for me, because he was so well-loved and he had this very open charm that made people feel they had a personal relationship with him.
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Kosovo is a small country but it also has a lot of riches that were granted to us by God.
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If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer you speak, the more you will know to tell.
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I don't have to fight if I don't want to.
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I had a great time with John Duigan; he's pretty amazing.
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It is not easy to stop brown envelope because journalists are part of the society
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Article 11 of the NPT states that if we are threatened, we can act in secret.
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In a marriage, in any long-term relationship, not to bother with lying. There's no time for that. If you have any sort of secret life, it will come back to haunt you.
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I've always been a pretty private, quiet kind of person and so I haven't had to change my life really at all, I don't think.
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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
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What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.
