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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Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular to painting. There is an effect that results from a certain arrangement of colors, of lights, of shadows. It is this that one calls the music of painting
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I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.
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I didn't know why dessert was invented or what function it was meant to perform. Raising livestock and the harvesting of grains are ancient activities, but when did humankind decide it also needed creme brulee?
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.
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A cage that allows someone to walk around inside of it is still a cage.
