Michael W. Smith Quotes
This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army – thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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To be honest, I enjoy all different types of films and experiences.
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I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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You can be very famous without being a great actress, and that's not good for me.
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I look at my movies; I call my movies 'the kid.' It's like I'm giving birth. I'm in the cocoon, you know?
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I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.
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In most organizations, change comes in only two flavors: trivial and traumatic. Review the history of the average organization and you'll discover long periods of incremental fiddling punctuated by occasional bouts of frantic, crisis-driven change.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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This fall I'm doing something I've never done before. I'm starring in a film, an independent film.
