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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I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.
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Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
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My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.
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For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.
