L. Neil Smith Quotes
You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you - but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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How we get power, how cars are powered, when the technology and resources to have something that is infinitely better, we still use old-school technology. We're still using that same exact structure.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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With 'Nip/Tuck,' I had never even done anything before I got on that show. They created that character for me. I was reading for something else.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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My grandmother has dementia, and my mother is looking after her as her primary caregiver. Seeing their relationship has had a profound impact, seeing how tough it is for both of them and seeing how the roles change and how my mother has gone from being a daughter to being the mother.
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Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us togethew today. Mawwage, that bwessed awwangement, that dweam within a dweam.
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I know, being the odd one out can feel brutal. But, rest assured, it's also wonderful - because your desire to do things differently isn't 'uncool.' In fact, it's the exact opposite.
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Normally I sleep in until 7, and most days, I go right into the office. On Tuesdays, though, I stay home and do work. I need a day when I'm not in meeting after meeting. You need time to try to get into your head again and see what's next.
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You cannot force me to agree with you. You can force me to act as though I agree with you - but then you'll have to watch your back. All the time.
