Lamar S. Smith Quotes
I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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I've been screwed by as many women as I have by men, in terms of lawyers. But lawyers don't count. If you take lawyers out of the equation, you have a more fair playing field. There is a sisterhood.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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Sex and hypocrisy. They go together like coffee and cream.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.
