Lewis B. Smedes Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities - counterfeiting U.S. currency, drug-running, counterfeit cigarettes and pharmaceuticals - until diplomacy gutted those efforts. The effort should be reinvigorated.
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If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker.
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Colombians are sick of 'Narcos' stories because Colombia is a country that has changed so much. It's a country that's completely different from the country that we see in 'Narcos.' They reconstructed themselves in 25 years, which is amazing.
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
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When I auditioned for 'Fargo,' there was something about it that I was hungry for because of how right it felt for me.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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When I left, there were over 1 million fewer people on welfare in New York state than when I took office, replacing dependency with opportunity.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
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The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.
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Many believe – and I believe – that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.
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People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
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The lies we tell ourselves are the most subtle of all lies.
