Clint Smith Quotes

Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

Clint Smith

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• The only thing I have learnt over the years is that if you enjoy your work and put in the best efforts, it will show. If you follow this process, things work out. But if you go chasing a formula, success will elude you.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Success
  • Best

• The idea of 'advice,' in terms of telling people advice or asking people for advice, has become not comprehensible to me, to a certain degree, due to feeling, like, for something to be accurately defined as 'good' or 'bad,' I would want to know the context, goal, perspective for it.

  

  Tao Lin
  • People
  • Goal
  • Advice

• That's the most important thing you do in your life - raise children and try to do the best job as a parent and give your kids the best shot in life to go out there into the big, bad world.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• Our real focus is going to be what can we do with our existing capacities, what new things can we do, and how much more demand can we fulfil with our existing capacities.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Real
  • Focus
  • New

• Although China is not so wealthy and powerful as the West, her people of whatever condition - rich or poor, high or low - all enjoy a perfect freedom and a happy life. Not so all the inhabitants of Western lands.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Flying
  • Wheel
  • Forehead

• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  

  Ted Lange
  • Think
  • Storytelling
  • Cosmic

• When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Young
  • Clothes
  • Own

• Parents know how to push your buttons because, hey, they sewed them on.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Parents
  • Know
  • Push

• I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Give
  • Three
  • Globalization

• There may be millions of fine thoughts, and the account of the experience on which they are based, all encased within stone walls of acceptable architectural form; but if the scholar can get at only one a week by diligent search, his syntheses are not likely to keep up with the current scene.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Up
  • May
  • Experience

• It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Up

• Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Nature
  • Death

• I will definitely drop bars, but that's, like, a few minutes of my show. I do a part of my set where I do that, and then I'll get back to the jokes. All the older people will look like, 'What the hell is happening?' The younger people are cheering, and the older people are like, 'I'm scared. I don't know what's going on.'

  

  Jay Pharoah
  • People

• 4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

  

  Christopher Poole

• Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.

  

  Emo Philips

• Judging the political climate in my state by walking around lefty Ann Arbor is like a polar bear judging global warming by staring at the ice cube beneath its feet.

  

  Eileen Pollack
  • Political
  • Walking
  • Judging

• Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Begin
  • Civil Disobedience
  • Satyagraha

• They the Soviets intend...to induce the Americans to adopt their own 'restructuring' and convergence of the Soviet and American systems using to this end the fear of nuclear conflict.... Convergence will be accompanied by blood baths and political re-education camps in Western Europe and the United States. The Soviet strategists are counting on an economic depression in the United States and intend to introduce their reformed model of socialism with a human face as an alternative to the American system during the depression.

  

  Anatoliy Golitsyn
  • Depression
  • United States
  • Restructuring

• When 'MADtv' got cancelled, I didn't work at all - for three years.

  

  Bobby Lee
  • Work

• You either innovate or you become defunct.

  

  Kenneth Frazier

• Oppression doesn't disappear just because you decided not to teach us that chapter.

  

  Clint Smith