Clint Smith Quotes
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The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington – wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington.
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Clothes are a big part of a free society, I think, and what you wear is so indicative of the political climate you're living in.
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
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I like to Instagram my dogs! I also get excited to post behind-the-scenes photos from when I was filming something.
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Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
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Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
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We're closer to HBO than we are to the entire grid of cable on demand.
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If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.
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Opinions of language are as interesting as opinions of arithmetic.
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'Pleasantville' seems tonally ambitious, but it can handle a wide breadth of tone because it's so fanciful.
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When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.
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Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.
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I moved to L.A. right out of high school, but not to act. I think I chose it because it was on the same time zone as Seattle, where I'm from.
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The job of elected leaders is to deliver results that represent the interests of the citizens who placed them in a position of authority with their voice, their vote. But these days, money talks louder.
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The American people depend on these federal employees to process, investigate, and adjudicate applications for immigration rights and benefits in a timely and thorough manner.
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I think it's important to not just think about what you want but what's needed in the world.
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I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.
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Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.
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A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.
