Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.
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It's really not about me. At the end of the day, God willing, I'll have another 40 or 50 years on this planet, and what I'm saying to myself is, 'What do I want to leave here?'
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Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I root for anyone who's got kids and if they want to make it work.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
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I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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Writing is such a good thing to do because you can't really get bored with it. If you're bored with writing, you're bored with life.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
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In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
