Tony Snow Quotes
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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I just finished a Jackie Chan movie, yes. That was an experience. I can mark that off on my bucket list.
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I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.
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I was an extra in a Tia Carrere music video.
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Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.
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Harmony is called the eternal. Knowing the eternal is called clarity.
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I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
