L. Neil Smith Quotes
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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I'm a great consumer of kung-fu movies - mid-'70s to late-'80s.
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I just don't see myself as retiring. As long as I'm healthy and can play the drums, that's what I'm going to do because that's the most fun thing that I know how to do.
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Although I eat healthily, I do enjoy a greasy fry-up, but usually only once a year. I've also got a big Kit-Kat addiction and buy them in bulk.
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Knowledge is the food of the soul; and we must take care, my friend, that the Sophist does not deceive us when he praises what he sells, like the dealers wholesale or retail who sell the food of the body; for they praise indiscriminately all their goods, without knowing what are really beneficial or hurtful.
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Great men don't 'move to the center' - great men move the center!
