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Kevin Smith Quotes

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

Kevin Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: August 2, 1970

Topics

Work Religion People You Anything

Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

John Burroughs

Concrete Abstract Whitman Emerson

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

Fire Brother Mind Contact Poet

I first met Michael in the early days of the Jackson 5 at the family home in Los Angeles, and the memory that stands out is that Michael, as cute and wide-eyed as an 11-year-old could be, was eager to get through the interview so he could watch cartoons before having to go to bed.

Robert Hilburn

Family Home Cute Memory Early Go

In college, when I was kind of confronted with facts and figures about inequality in America, a big impulse I had was to go hang out with homeless people around my university and hear them out and understand their situation from their perspective.

Matthew Desmond

Perspective People College Homeless

I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't know. It's life.

Johnny Cash

Life Love Day Go Know Stay

Discretion is the most important thing for a banker. That is the philosophy of the family... I mean, of the bank.

Ana Patricia Botin

Family Philosophy Important Mean

Police officers put the badge on every morning, not knowing for sure if they'll come home at night to take it off.

Tom Cotton

Home Morning Police Night Knowing

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

Roger McGuinn

Down Play Recall Break Finger Basic

The Tea Party and the like are about what we can't do, instead of the American ideal of what we can.

Rush D. Holt, Jr.

Tea American Party Ideal Like About

I'm really anxious not to repeat what I've done before, to keep pushing and learning.

Doug Liman

Learning Done Repeat Keep Pushing

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

Cillian Murphy

Best Fight You Go Want Roles

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Clarence Thomas

More Civil Rights Rights Act Than