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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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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Declare Church and State forever separate and distinct, but each free within their proper spheres, and that all church property shall bear its own proportion of taxation.
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The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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If Donald Trump wants to harm cities and the people who call them home, he'll have to come through me.
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I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
