L. Neil Smith Quotes
Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
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To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.
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While I played Ranji Trophy for five years, I used to be asked, 'When are you playing for the nation?' - a question which I didn't have any answer to. I kept playing before I got my first break in 1996; those five years were indeed frustrating.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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A lot of people come work with me because I keep an open set, and people can visit. Julia Roberts used to have friends visit on 'Pretty Woman.'
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Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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On Hillary's side, I don't think it gets more establishment than Hillary Clinton. If I had one word to describe Hillary, it would be 'beholden.' Nothing's gonna really change. Government's gonna have the answer to everything, and that's gonna mean taxes are gonna go up.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself.
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I just keep happy and help the team when I get an opportunity.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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I don't like to chase an audience. You can smell when someone is chasing an audience and it's not good.
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Islam is a peaceful religion.
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Acting is therapy. It keeps you in contact with your feelings.
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Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.
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The three people I've always wanted to meet are Stephen Fry, Billy Connolly and Steven Gerrard.
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My brothers and sisters and I spoke in a language called Egg Latin. In the early '50s in Canada, this became a fad way of talking among certain people. It's based on the concept that in every syllable before the vowel and after the preceding constant you insert the word 'egg.' So, my name Phil would be 'Pegghil.'
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Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
