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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It is not a simple life to be a single cell, although I have no right to say so, having been a single cell so long ago myself that I have no memory at all of that stage in my life.
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No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.
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I only say this because a lot of people seem to think that if you're a musician you want to be a celebrity. But most musicians in the world aren't celebrities, and pretty much everything about the concept of 'celebrity' is a complete load of bollocks anyhow.
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I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.
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Lyrically, I think I'm frustrated with this whole process of trying to figure out what I believe about the world and life. I don't like to adopt a sort of guiding philosophy.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
