Charles Hugh Smith Quotes
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.
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Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!
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From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.
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Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.
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A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
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I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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Unmoved though Witlings sneer and Rivals rail, Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail. He scorns the meek address, the suppliant strain. With merit needless, and without it vain. In Reason, Nature, Truth, he dares to trust: Ye Fops, be silent: and ye Wits, be just.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.
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In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.
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Most of what we say about ourselves is a wonderful piece of storytelling.
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.
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Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
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Our board is not compensated and not staffed. We've never taken $1 in expenses. We look at this as public service.
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At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.
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Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.
