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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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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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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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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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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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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Cinema is arguably the 20th century's most influential art form.
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Don't worry about the pressure or the responsibility. Just live in it, have fun, and when everything seems to be going right, just stay humble and remember your family.
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All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.
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“Punk’ was the only time I fitted in. Just one tiny sliver of time where it was acceptable to say what you thought.”
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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.
