Brent Smith Quotes
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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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'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
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There is nothing that compares to the Holocaust.
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I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
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Globalization is the economic treason that dare not speak it name.
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If you can watch much television, then being dead will be a cinch. Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I think every band is a little cautious when the drummer starts to write tunes.
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You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.
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I came out of my professional athlete career with a 450 credit score, no money in the bank to show for it, but I had an Ivy League degree. So I put that Dartmouth degree to good use and got a job on Wall Street. I hated it but used the time to make connections and become financially literate.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.
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Too many problem-solving sessions become battlegrounds where decisions are made based on power rather than intelligence.
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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
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Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them.
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I am working right at both the levels- with the most wealthy clients in the world, but also the poorest. I spend half my time designing for people that have nothing.
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'I feel as if I’m missing all the excitement.''In my experience,' Tunguska said, making himself a temporary seat, 'excitement is always better when it happens to other people.'
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The only thing missing from your life is what you're failing to bring to it.
