Clint Smith Quotes
Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.

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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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A president can't go to every memorial service.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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It's a balance. But you have to have your cheat day; you have to take your time to have the pleasure. Otherwise, what's the point?
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
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You think you can get away, but you can't. I'll follow you home and I'll shout jokes through your letterbox.
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Family: the most important thing of all. My siblings may drive me crazy at times but they are my blood. They’re all I’ve known. My family is me. They are my life. Without them I walk the planet alone. Forbidden, Tabitha Suzuma
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Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.
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It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
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Each holiday season, as family members arrive and couches are unfolded, my household settles into a palpable nostalgia. Poorly designed photo albums are pulled from the shelves. Home videos of prepubescent siblings in matching pajamas dance across the television screen.