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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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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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.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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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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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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Living with one woman is horrific.
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What I've learned from fighting is that the lights in side the cage will tell everything you did or did not do in your camp! Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!
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I make work not to give answers but to question things.
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When I decided to do 'The Celebrity Apprentice,' there was absolutely no question that I would play the game for GMHC.
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If you only hear one side of the story, at some point, you have to question who the writer is.
