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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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 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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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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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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There will be many which will increase in their destruction.
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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
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I think I would just want to say that I do view serving in government as an honor, and I do view it as a responsibility.
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I don't go to things because I want to see violence, I go to things because I want to see them handled well.
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It is a different genre - a show about something other than doctors, lawyers and cops. Teachers are something completely different. I think it makes for very interesting television.
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And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God.
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If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.
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I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.
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To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
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Life is very difficult and we owe it to our fellow human beings to be as cheerful as we can.
