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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There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
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I want people to get a better sense of who I am, whether they've seen every video or zero videos.
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Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
