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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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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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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Everyone deserves to have their voice heard.
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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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I want to link together ancient forms of storytelling and the future.
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I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.
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In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.
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When people ask me what's my field? I say, on one hand, a fractalist. Perhaps the only one, the only full-time one.
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Like the government, corporations must be bound with the chains of the Constitution, and especially of the Bill of Rights.
