Barbara Smith Quotes
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I think the really cool and compelling thing about math and physics is that it opens up entry to all these hypotheticals - or at least, it gives you the language to talk about them. But at the same time, if a scenario is completely disconnected from reality, it's not all that interesting.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Cynicism is humor in ill health.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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I've never pursued a role. I always hear stories about actors going after parts and I'm, like, 'How do they do that?' It seems so weird. It seems like a total myth or something.
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I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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From my experience, I cannot doubt but that man, when lost to terrestrial consciousness, is indeed sojourning in another and uncorporeal life of far different nature from the life we know; and of which only the slightest and most indistinct memories linger after waking.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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The U.S. is a mere pup tent of a civilization. We’ve got two hundred years of stupidity behind us and we think we’re right up there with everyone else who’s been doing it for thousands of years.
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You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
