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.L. Neil Smith
Quotes to Explore
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria -
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.
Rachel Bloom -
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee -
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.
Danica McKellar -
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
Marat Safin -
I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
Rafael dos Anjos -
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.
Hal Sparks -
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Edith Wharton -
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.
Vincent Cassel -
Don't take 'no' for an answer.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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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.
Gary Johnson -
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.
Dana Brunetti -
My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
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.
Valerie Cruz -
If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde
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When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.
Bear Grylls -
Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.
Anthony Mackie -
It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous.
Pierre Schaeffer -
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.
L. Neil Smith