Clint Smith Quotes
The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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When it comes down to hardball, we have a veto pen, and I've used it in the past, and I expect we will have opportunity to use it in the future. That's the nature of the business.
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Recently, a friend sent me the online musings of a televangelist who advised his thousands of followers that the Federal Reserve achieved satanic ends by manipulating the world's money supply. Paranoia has replaced piety.
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My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.
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Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
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I just couldn't believe that the police would fire tear gas into what had been a peaceful protest. I was running around, face burning, and nothing I saw looked like America to me.
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I didn't go to university, and I always had in my mind that I hadn't studied properly.
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Emotions are the natural result of striving for something. Every single scene has two or more people in it, and nobody wants the same thing, so they are negotiating this one way or another. The result of that negotiation will bring out all kinds of emotional stuff in you.
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The death penalty not only takes away the life of the person strapped to the table - it takes away a little bit of the humanity in each of us.
