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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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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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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All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of the Soviet Union and have continued to be supportive in the ongoing war on terror.
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When I ride the subway back and forth, sometimes I look at the other passengers and wonder if any of them are children who have been adopted or parents who have adopted.
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It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.
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I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
