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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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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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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Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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My parents are both average size. For them to have a child who was very, very different and very, very small must have been incredibly hard.
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It's not secret that usually I don't have a filter.
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I've done movies with Oliver Stone and Michael Mann. And I've done quite a few dramas in my time, from the theatre to film work. I just think the audience is used to seeing me on 'Saturday Night Live,' and 'K-9,' and 'Curly Sue' and of course, 'According to Jim.' I think that my comedies have been the most popular.
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I think you always want to be open to things... it's just the matter of finding something I believe in, finding a character I believe in, and I think that's the way it should always be. I'm looking for things that excite me.
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Now, I've never hosted a reality TV show, but I know the true mark of a successful businessman is not the number of times you say, 'You're fired.' It's the number times you say, 'You're hired.'
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
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God is a great concept, but it doesn't work
