Ninian Smart Quotes
Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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A lot of cats are not that social.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.
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For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.
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The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
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I've kind of come to the conclusion that what passes for realism in movies has nothing to do with reality and that my stuff is more realistic than that.
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The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.
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I do not argue with obstinate men. I act in spite of them.
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Is life less thrilling if your neighbors are rational, if they don’t bomb your power stations whenever they feel you need to be admonished? Is it less rousing if they don’t rattle your windows and nerves with indiscriminate sonic booms just because they can?
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Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.
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Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
