Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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I definitely enjoy working with people who can do their thing but also allow me to do my thing, you know? Who respect the process.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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Kmart uses such mass production that they are able to lower their prices. My hose, for instance, is made by the same factory, the same machines, the same threads as the hose made by four top designers.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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I would love to write a screenplay for 'Badlands' one day. I don't think I could ever have the patience to do it; I don't even have the patience to write songs. I write some of the shortest songs ever because I don't have the patience.
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A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.
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The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.
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I grew up on cricket and I think Australian kids are getting so Americanized, you know?
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
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Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.
