Dave Smalley Quotes
I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Thought is more than a right - it is the very breath of man. Whoever fetters thought attacks man himself. To speak, to write, to publish, are things, so far as the right is concerned, absolutely identical. They are the ever-enlarging circles of intelligence in action; they are the sonorous waves of thought.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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Progress makes us lose the feeling of a ceremony that cooking should have. It has significantly shifted our values so that now it seems to us that only activities with an economic reward are worth pursuing.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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It's not my style to judge anybody.
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I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
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I left home at 15 because Hollywood isn't the best place to grow up.
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I am not Dr. Ron Paul. I am not Dr. Ron Paul, Jr. I am not Dr. Ron Paul Lite.
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We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.
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All of us needed time to rest. And we had time - four months of it - to take all the rest in the world.
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It definitely gets challenging at times. I travel a lot more now, and its never easy having to leave the kids, even if its for a few days.
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I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.
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I tell people all the time I want to be buried naked. I know there will be a store where I'm going.
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I do consider myself to be a positive person. I'd much rather have my energy be focused on trying to make the world a better place, than to be bitter or negative.
