F. LaGard Smith Quotes
The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
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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!
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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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.
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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.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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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.
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First we pre-visualized it [the flying fish scene in 'Life of Pi'] so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
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Shipping magnate of the 20th century If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
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The Swiss are well armed and enjoy great freedom.
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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
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I don't know what the situation is, but if I get the ball in good position I try to do the best I can to score.
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The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.
