L. J. Smith Quotes
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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We've got our football where no one wears anything and the guys are in little shorts and they beat the crap out of each other, and they can catch it and they can kick it, and it's the only place it's played in the world.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I try to stay focused.
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.
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We cannot afford to spend millions and millions over nuclear arms when there is poverty and unemployment all around us.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
