Ed Smith Quotes
One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Nobody wants to read a 600 page book in which the author is fabulous throughout.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.
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I'll give you an example. Henry, the old black guy who cooks the corn bread, he worked on the railroads for about 20 years so he knows how to lay and build track.
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When I signed onto 'Superman,' editors Matt Idelson and Wil Moss gave me a rough outline that JMS had turned in for the remaining issues of the 'Grounded' arc, which amounted to a couple of sentences for each issue, spelling out in general terms where the issue would take place geographically, specific guest stars, things like that.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I remember, when I was a young guy in the SEAL teams, I was very afraid of making mistakes and looking stupid or doing dumb things and getting a bad reputation.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
