Clint Smith Quotes
We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
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We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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I just lip gloss! It doesn't matter if it's $2 or $30.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Watching game film motivates me a lot. It shows me what I need to work on and determines the specific workouts I do.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
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You in Lebanon, your power is no match to Israel. Israel, militarily, is more powerful than you and maybe it is more powerful than all the Arab countries, or most of them.
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I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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They are feeding the world that will devour them and their children.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
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Performing has been part of my life since I was eight years old, so that's what I think I do. I don't think about the fact that it happens to be in a bigger venue where people get to know you, or they think they do.
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People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.
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I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.
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I love improvising on the spot. I like that pressure.
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We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't.
