Clint Smith Quotes
I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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Growing up in Waterloo, the Governor General's Award wasn't something I even thought to wish for.
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It really has stayed practically the same. It wasn't like I used to do wild punk make-up: no, I always had the same vision.
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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.
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Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
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I kind of follow in the tradition of some folks - some thinkers and scholars I really look up - who reject the idea of intellectual compartmentalization.
