Clint Smith Quotes
There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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The symbolic power of Barack Obama's presidency - that whiteness was no longer strong enough to prevent peons taking up residence in the castle - assaulted the most deeply rooted notions of white supremacy and instilled fear in its adherents and beneficiaries.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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What I'm really worried about is war. Will the former rich countries really accept a completely changed world economy, and a shift of power away from where it has been the last 50 to 100 to 150 years, back to Asia?
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.
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My guilty pleasures are the websites where you can look at the fashions and see how different outfits will look. You can even take a picture of yourself and download it and play with the fashions! I love playing with these websites to see what I can learn.
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I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
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I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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France has the least social mobility of any developed country. The social elevator no longer works. It's broken.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.
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My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.
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Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.
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There is always going to be competition. When you play for a top club, you're going to attract top players. It's part and parcel of football.
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Honestly, it's the greatest show on television. It's live. It's topical. It makes you laugh. It's just a great vibe.
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There is simply no better way to generate buzz for soccer in your country than having your team in the World Cup.
