Clint Smith Quotes

If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

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• I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.

  

  Damien Hirst
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• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
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• When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

  

  Daniel Bell
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• I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.

  

  Yann Tiersen
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• I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
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• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
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• Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.

  

  Dan Gable
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• At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

  

  Padgett Powell
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• Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

  

  Venus Williams
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• An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

  

  Kate Middleton
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• I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.

  

  Carlene Carter
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• As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.

  

  Ian Holm
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• I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• An outsider's point of view is always handy.

  

  Pat Oliphant
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• My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
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• The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical.

  

  Al Jarreau
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• I keep on calling them records because they will always be records to me.

  

  Neal Schon

• What acquaintance have the people at large with the arena of political rectitude, with the connections of kingdoms, the resources of national strength, the abilities of ministers, or even with their own dispositions?...I pay no regard whatever to the voice of the people: it is their duty to do what is proper, without considering what may be agreeable.

  

  Charles James Fox
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• Inspiration is just one requirement for being a writer. Another is keeping regular working hours.

  

  Zelda Popkin
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• I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.

  

  Hermann Hesse
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• If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.

  

  Clint Smith
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