Clint Smith Quotes

Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

Clint Smith

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• Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Together
  • Marriage
  • Problems

• Trump's campaign slogan resonates strongly with a large population of Americans. 'Make America Great Again' portrays a nostalgia for what America once was, and a longing desire to return to that time. Millennials unfortunately don't know first-hand that time which Trump is talking about.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• You have to find out how to become the character.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Character
  • You
  • Find

• To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• The wonderful drama teacher at my high school, Barbara Patterson, saw me standing in the hall and told me I should audition for 'West Side Story.' I guess she thought I looked like a gang member.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • School
  • She
  • High

• I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Alone

• I take great pride in having been able to overcome the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.

  

  Zhu Rongji
  • Great
  • Growth
  • Pride

• Top knots are the easiest thing to create.

  

  Zendaya
  • Create
  • Top
  • Knots

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• Kids are very cruel to each other.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Cruel

• Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Best
  • Modern
  • Measure

• I do worry about young people in the business who have experienced a lot of success and are punted around doing those manic publicity trails, when you don't really know who you are yet.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mankind
  • Quiet
  • Stay

• I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

  

  J. Cole
  • Important
  • Better
  • Rap

• I plainly told them, 'Be ye sincerely converted, and with your whole heart, to the Lord our God, for nothing is impossible to Him, that He may today send you food on your road, even until you are satisfied, because He has everywhere abundance.' And, with God's help, it was so done: Behold! A herd of swine appeared in the road before our eyes.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Heart
  • Done

• I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Song
  • Sick
  • Stand

• Deus seu Natura

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• My hair gets very light in the summer, but the problem with using all these products and going into the pool a lot is that my hair gets very yellow. I love purple shampoo!

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Light
  • Hair
  • Summer

• I didn't end up going bankrupt... I made some great investments and I held on to my money, which also enables me to have the freedom to do what I want now. But it's not about finances. No matter what, it's about keeping it real.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • Great
  • Real

• I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism back then towards Indian people. And it wasn't actual hatred, it was just that blind, 'Let's pick on that guy.' You know, and you've got to figure that I was a very small kid. And I had a big mouth, so I'm sure that didn't help.

  

  Russell Peters
  • People
  • Guy
  • Helping

• I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

  

  Margaret Haddix
  • Reading

• I've realized along the way that a lot of things that I do as a performer are about waiting for somebody to write something for me or develop something for me, but music, music was the thing that I don't have to wait for anybody's permission to do.

  

  Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Music
  • Waiting

• Systemic racism always takes a toll, whether it be by bullet or by blood clot.

  

  Clint Smith
  • Racism