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.
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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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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 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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Obviously, I love country music, so I wanna be able to live in the country music genre and then play to country music fans.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I grew up in Christianity. They preach a lot that you should get married and be a wife and be a virtuous woman and all of that. So I was so eager to do that, and I didn't really take the time I needed to grow into my own. And I ended up running into a really bad situation. I didn't even really date my ex-husband. We just kind of jumped into it.
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The sheer force of the music calls for a wild audience reaction.
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I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have-life itself.
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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When it comes to my racing career I'm very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I'm a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I'm rude.
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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.
