L. Neil Smith Quotes

Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Long
  • Long Time

• The first 'D' is to dream: dream big - not for yourself, but for the country and for the world. The second 'D' is to discover: discover your full potential and the opportunities that surround you; and the third 'D' is to do. 'Do' means to act on your dreams and make best use of the opportunities you have discovered.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Country
  • Dream

• Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

  

  Rami Malek
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• A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Men
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• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
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• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

  

  Jack Nicholson
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• I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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• We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.

  

  Dan Quinn
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  • Forget
  • Opponent

• Women know how to scare other women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
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  • Know
  • Other

• I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • Day
  • India

• I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
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• One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
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• When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the time I just thought I was making tofu every night for dinner and going to work.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Time
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• I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

  

  Rami Malek
  • People
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• The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

  

  Gabrielle Union
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• I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • People
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  • High

• Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • Career
  • Feeling

• When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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  • Bad
  • Learn

• This country was founded on a core set of family values. These values should not be discouraged and blatantly undermined by the airing of offensive material on broadcast television and radio.

  

  Kenny Marchant
  • Country
  • Family

• You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.

  

  Mehmet Oz
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  • Responsibility

• My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.

  

  Dana Davis
  • Idea
  • Working
  • Apartment

• Joy from truth's own glass of fireSweetly on the searcher smiles;Lest on virtue's steeps he tire,Joy the tedious path beguiles.High on faith's bright hill before us,See her banner proudly wave!Joy, too, swells the angels' chorus,- Bursts the bondage of the grave!

  

  Friedrich Schiller
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• I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don't find funny, saying things I don't really mean - because at the end of the day that's what we're all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we're all the same.

  

  Tabitha Suzuma
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  • Trying
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• Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the middle east is to enhance the civil rights and social equality of women, remind them that we very enthusiastically destroyed the most secular country over there, where women could dress as they liked, have good jobs, be literate, and vote.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
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  • Women