Clint Smith Quotes
School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Justice is revenge.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I've always seen the world through the eyes of a scientist. I love the predictable outcomes that science gives us, the control over the world that that can render.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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The more you stay with and/or complain about a toxic person, the more you're merely delaying doing the important inner work you need to do - to heal your wounds, expand your limiting beliefs, and show yourself far more love and respect.
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When I'm in the studio, I stay in the studio, like, sometimes 20 hours out the day.
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I know these are going to sound like school reading-list suggestions, but if you like dystopian fiction, you should check out some of the originals: Anthem, by Ayn Rand; 1984, by George Orwell; or Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.
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Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself to sit down until I came up with something.
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All too often in tough economic times, it is the environment that gets left on the cutting room floors of Congress as everyone scraps for limited federal dollars.
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I feel about aging the way William Saroyan said he felt about death: Everybody has to do it, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case.
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School desegregation is associated with higher graduation rates, greater employability, higher earnings, and decreased rates of incarceration.
