L. Neil Smith Quotes
Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
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I think the country is very settled in a lot of ways, and we saw that after the Democratic Convention. I think a lot of the bump that we enjoyed came when John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably our worst crime. I keep wondering what a 'mature' record means.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
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I know who I am as a person, as a father, and as a husband.
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Probably fewer than 2% of handguns and well under 1% of all guns will ever be involved in a violent crime. Thus, the problem of criminal gun violence is concentrated within a very small subset of gun owners, indicating that gun control aimed at the general population faces a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem.
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The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
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I didn't go to college, I went straight from high school to working on I'll Fly Away, I was very, very lucky.
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When you get called the n-word, as a black person you can do anything. It's like getting a gold star in Super Mario Brothers and junk. I hear the music when I hear the n-word. I get right into it; I get really into it. You can do anything. You could be in a fancy restaurant - just start throwing poop at the walls. People be like, 'What are you doing?' 'Someone called him the n-word.
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Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound.
