Wesley J. Smith Quotes
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
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The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts.
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I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
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We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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I have so many indie bands on my iPod. What I don't really understand is the attitude that if a band is unknown, they're good, and if they get fans, then you move on to the next band.
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The attitude of foreign to English musicians is unsympathetic, self-opinionated and pedantic. They believe that their tradition is the only one (this is specially true of the Viennese) and that anything that is not in accordance with that tradition is 'wrong' and arises from insular ignorance.
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Ὄξος τ' ἄλειφά τ' ἐγχέας ταὐτῷ κύτειδιχοστατοῦντ' ἂν οὐ φίλως † προσεννέποις.
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I have that weakness. I think women are one of the most beautiful creations that could be given by nature, by God.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I did TV for a bit, and somewhere along the line, I started writing a column for 'The Independent' newspaper in England, and now I write features for 'British Vogue.'
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Prolonged mimesis of the alphabet and its fragmenting properties produced a new dominant mode of perception and then of culture.
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“Dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.”
