Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.
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I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
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I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work to do, and we try to respect everyone's work and give them the time necessary. There's never any tension. That's something that helps to attain the simplicity that I'm looking for.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.
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My mother's a... beautiful woman, and I think, in some way, I felt intimidated by that sometimes.
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You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.
