Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
Quotes to Explore
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.
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Travel is so important in its capacity to expand the mind. It's exciting to start as young as possible - you get to see how other cultures live, challenge your senses, and try different cuisines.
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If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it may not be viewed as a true expression of the Negro's protest.
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My private life stays private.
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Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .
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A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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Whenever you're doing two things at once, you're compromising them both.
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Nobody sees reality whole; we all need others to show us the parts of it that they see better than we do. Nobody sees reality with total accuracy; we all need others to correct our own vision.
