Robert Farrell Smith (Obert Skye) Quotes
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If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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I was 18 years old when I booked 'Youth in Revolt,' and it was my first movie, and I was starring in that movie - and even then, I didn't feel like I had made it.
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It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.
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There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
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Hello, my name is Zach Galifianakis, and I hope I'm pronouncing that right.
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You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.
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Don't predict disappointment while hope is an option
