F. LaGard Smith Quotes

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

F. LaGard Smith

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• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Dad
  • Manager
  • Hospital

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Hair
  • Never
  • Saturday

• I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.

  

  E. L. James
  • High
  • Storytelling
  • Bar

• In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.

  

  Laura Harring
  • Dance
  • Yoga
  • Hippie

• I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Kind
  • Sucker

• One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Fact
  • Started
  • Vine

• What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your footing on something as unstable as a mountain of human skulls. Most humans probably couldn't manage it, and they've had a lifetime of practice at walking without falling over.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • People
  • Style
  • Practice

• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Military

• Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

  

  Gary Krist
  • Trying
  • American
  • America

• If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • College
  • Student
  • Tuition

• All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Business
  • Man

• A song in a musical works best when a character has to sing - when words won't do the trick anymore. The same idea applies to a long speech in a play or a movie or on television. You want to force the character out of a conversational pattern.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Long
  • Character
  • Movie

• I started really young, like 12 or 13, and then I started doing school plays. We had a really good drama department, so the kind of drama-geek stigma wasn't really there in my high school.

  

  Matt Damon
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• I can jog, but I can't run. That's hard for me. I like the fact that I can jog for fitness, but to me there's a huge difference between jogging and running.

  

  Mary Decker
  • Running
  • Fitness

• I just want to be myself, and I really, like, can't say I'm sorry for it. I just can't.

  

  Aidy Bryant
  • Sorry

• Freedom of conscience, the existence of an informed public opinion, a system of education of a pluralist nature, freedom of the press, and access to other sources of information, all these are in very short supply in the socialist countries.

  

  Andrei Sakharov
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Education

• I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • People
  • God
  • Money

• The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

  

  F. LaGard Smith
  • Freedom
  • Religious