Dave Smalley Quotes
Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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I've been very lucky.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
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For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
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I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
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I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.
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I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with.
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He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.
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If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.
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Music is the one universal language. It's your best friend when the chips are down, and it's better than any energy drink when you're feeling it.
