L. Neil Smith Quotes
People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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We tend in this country to talk about Democrats and Republicans, and think there's little group over there called Independents that's maybe 2%. That is not the case, and it has not been the case for most of modern American history.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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'Of Mice and Men,' Steinbeck's fifth novel, adheres to a simple dramatic structure, which observes the classic Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.
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I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.
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A positive mental attitude is an irresistible force that knows no such thing as an immovable body.
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In prison I had the opportunity to debate and discuss people that had subscribed to all forms of Islamism.
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I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
