William Jay Smith Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
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I like power and I like to use it.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past.
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Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
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Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors.
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The church grew, and I gained a reputation for preaching, and people came, and it was a wonderful community. But we had a building that seated 82 people, and with a congregation then approaching 400 we were up to four services on Sunday, and everyone was tired.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
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God is a God of systems and predictability and order, and God honors planning.
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
