Clint Smith Quotes
There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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Smoke machines are the best!
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
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Basically what I'm trying to tell you is that it's almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you're in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don't recommend it.
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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
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The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.
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There is a solidarity that black people can find in celebrating the athletic success of our own, especially in sports where our existence is sparse.
