Lucien Smith Quotes
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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All the different nations in the world, despite their differences of appearance and religion and language and way of life, still have one thing in common, and that is what's inside of all of us. If we X-rayed the insides of different human beings, we wouldn't be able to tell from those X-rays what the person's language or background or race is.
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Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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I've never abandoned the novel.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.
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Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
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Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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When you have feelings like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.
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You will wonder how it was possible for me to endure the same kind of “tomorrow the world” talk that had sent me running away from Hainburg. The answer is simply that I had run out of places to run away to. Surrounded by a population that had been completely sold on monstrous ideas, I simply retreated down, down, down, trying to live in imitation of the German writer Erich Kästner, whom I had always admired and who responded to the Nazi years with what was called “internal emigration.” The soul withdrew to a rational silence. The body remained there in the madness.
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Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
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I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.
