Lee Smith Quotes
I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's simply not how it works.
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Parenting is tough.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough times in the studio in the past, but after four weeks most of the material would have been recorded. This time it seemed like it just goes on and on.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.
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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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Why are they all staring?" demanded Albus as he and Rose craned around to look at the other students. "Don’t let it worry you," said Ron. "It’s me. I’m extremely famous.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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My parents locked off most areas of expression. The only outlet left to me was the arts.
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Wisdom is passionless. But faith by contrast is what Kierkegaard calls a passion.
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I was raised in a little church, the Grundy Methodist Church, that was very straight-laced, but I had a friend whose mother spoke in tongues. I was just wild for this family. My own parents were older, and they were so over-protective. I just loved the 'letting go' that would happen when I went to church with my friend.
