Chris Smith Quotes
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
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All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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I've always wanted to do my best to make sure it's clear that I want to keep the focus on my music.
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I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
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Every time Paul and Gene use my makeup, they have to pay me a royalty check. I think they changed the makeup so they didn't have to pay me.
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'You go up to a man, and you say, ‘How are things going, Joe?’ And he says, ‘Oh fine, fine-couldn’t be better.’ And you look into his eyes, and you see things really couldn’t be much worse. When you get right down to it, everybody’s having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everybody. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.'
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A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
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There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.
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Reasonably accurate appraisal of one's own capabilities is, therefore, of considerable value in successful functioning. Large misjudgments of personal efficacy in either direction have consequences. People who grossly overestimate their capabilities undertake activities that are clearly beyond their reach. As a result, they get themselves into considerable difficulties, undermine their credibility, and suffer needless failures. Some of the missteps, of course, can produce serious, irreparable harm.
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We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.
