Michael W. Smith Quotes
Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I perfectly understood President Obama's attitude throughout the French presidential campaign. He had no reason to distance himself from Nicolas Sarkozy. It's the basic solidarity that leaders who worked together owe to each other.
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To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to risk your life for it, is the ultimate tragedy.
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I think I identify more with the smart guy, but most people might take umbrage at that. I like to think of myself as a real thinker, but I suppose people might beg to differ.
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Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
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Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
