Kevin Smith Quotes
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I like the diversity that my children are exposed to every day.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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The earth laughs in flowers.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I drink a lot. More or less 10 or 12 coffees a day, both typical Italian and espresso.
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It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
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We played everything from "White Sports Coat" to Bill Haley and the Comets - whatever happened to be the "in music" at the time.
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I believe Florida deserves a candidate who will work for Florida every single day and campaign for every Florida voter, no matter where they live, how they worship, or what language they speak around the dinner table.
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People who take things too literally don't get much of anything from my teaching. By never saying anything I mean, I say a great deal. I never mean anything I say under oath. I never mean exactly what I say. Not even this. You have to read between the words.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
