Colin S. Smith Quotes
God did not love you because of your background, your intelligence, your good looks, your prayers, your ministry, your commitment, your faith, or your good life. God loves you…because He loves you. Let that lead you to worship.
Quotes to Explore
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity.
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I am not a bloody ghoda running a race that you give me a tag. I am competitive, and the reason for that is that I want to do the best films.
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If you want to make God happy, tell him your plans.
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God did not love you because of your background, your intelligence, your good looks, your prayers, your ministry, your commitment, your faith, or your good life. God loves you…because He loves you. Let that lead you to worship.
