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 success is not who I am.
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As soon as anybody puts anything on film, it automatically has a point of view, and it's somebody else's point of view, and it's impossible for it to be yours.
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I have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David, and for drink I desire His Blood, which is love incorruptible.
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I have an idealistic view of science as a liberalising and progressive force for humanity.
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Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.
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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.
