Michael W. Smith Quotes
I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.
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Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.
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There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
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To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.
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Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.
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Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
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'Don’t talk to me like you understand my sins.''Don’t talk to me like you know what I do and do not understand.' Alvin chuckled grimly. 'Oh, that mouth you’ve got.''You can’t answer what I said, so you’re going to talk about my saying it.'
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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One of the things I've tried to do in my career is really write different kinds of books, so I'm able to broaden people's expectations of what I'm allowed to do.
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Persistence is self-discipline in action.
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To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions.
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Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.
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I sure love Ireland. The first trip I ever made was last year when I did this record in Dublin.
