L. Neil Smith Quotes
It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
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I've taken my clothes off enough in my career.
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I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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The larger the disaster, the more necessary it is to have the government as the principal driver of recovery.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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I always had an affinity for older people. I had a job delivering newspapers, and one place I had to go was an old people's home. Some people would introduce you to their neighbors as if you were a nephew or grandson. They didn't get many visitors, so they acted like you were coming to see them. And that stuck with me for a long time.
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If our hard-earned liberty, our desire to be irreverent of the old and to question the new, can be reduced to one, basic and indispensable right, it must be the right to free speech.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
