Michael W. Smith Quotes
For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.'
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
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Yes, I would love to play one of the leads in one these movies and have all those challenges and deal with all those complications, but the business being what it is, there is a slot for me in these kinds of films, so I enjoy them, and I enjoy the people that I work with.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
