George H. Smith Quotes
I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the psychological damage caused by religious teachings-damage that often takes years to counteract.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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Oh my God, I would love to go on stage so much. I'm undignified with how badly I want it.
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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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I always try to be nice to the paparazzi because finally, maybe one day, they won't ask for me, and I will regret it.
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Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
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As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
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This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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Every generation finds the drug it needs.
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There are very few solid family films. A lot of the writing is awful.
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I did not have a lot of spare time after I was about eleven because in my youth, young people used to try to find ways of making money after school. From about age eleven on, I either shined shoes or did something such.
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I'd rather look like a hobo and be super comfortable than wear something not comfortable.
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There's something about the West Coast. The air is lighter. The vibe is chill.
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I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
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If the assumptions used in calculating energy are changed, then this seriously affects the final result, even though the same body of data might be used.
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And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.
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In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you'll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that's more just going out and playing you know.
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No work is "most important." Or, put differently, all work is important but work done poorly becomes most important.
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Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
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Mr. Khan, paid the ultimate sacrifice in his family, didn't he. And what has he heard from Donald Trump? Nothing but insults, degrading comments about Muslims, a total misunderstanding of what made our country great, religious freedom, religious liberty. It's enshrined in our Constitution, as Mr. Khan knows, because he's actually read it.
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If you are born in 1564, your dislocation from your parents' experience is very profound. You are the first generation who will have had all your religious experience in English, the first to have a countryman circumnavigate the globe. All the power and economic structures of the world are changing around you.
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One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
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I am continually amazed by the credence given to religious claims in the intellectual community; and, as a human being, i am appaulled by the psychological damage caused by religious teachings-damage that often takes years to counteract.
