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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With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men.
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The development of new instrumental and vocal idioms has been one of the remarkable phenomena of recent music.
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Everything that anyone would ever look for is usually where they find it.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Thank you for reminding Canada that I'm a disappointment to them. I like hockey, I love it, but I'm not an avid hockey - let's face it, true Canadian - fan. I've always been more into snowboarding and skateboarding and sort of the alternative sports, I'm not crazy about hockey - but love it!
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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.
