L. Neil Smith Quotes
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I'm only waiting for Lindsay Lohan's fashion collection to come out. Ten years from now, there may be no real designers left.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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When I'm not acting, I try to be normal, play golf, play hockey. It's funny because you're in this little bubble when you're working - you don't read books, you don't really keep up with the news, you're just living that life.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially sensitive to the rights of those whose choices upset the majority.
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There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.
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I enjoy stories about thin women - I read them frequently. I enjoy them; I root for those characters, but I always feel like there are enough of them out there and there are enough of them in the spotlight.
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You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.
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It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
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men talk of money and industry of hard times and recoveries of finance and economics but the ants wait and the scorpions wait for while men talk they are making deserts all the time getting the world ready for the conquering ant drought and erosion and desert because men cannot learn
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I put it a still life of a pear, made by Manet there on the wall, next to Ingres' painting 'Jupiter', for a pear like that would overthrow any god.
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I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.
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When 'Top Gun' came out, my sisters were like, 'Oh, my God, 'Top Gun!' Tom Cruise!' And I very confidently said, 'I'm going to marry him one day.' It wasn't like, 'How do I get to Tom Cruise?' It was just, 'I think I'm going to marry him. Why not? He'll like me. I'm fun.'
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Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn't allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.
