L. Neil Smith Quotes

The War on Drugs employs millions - politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military - that probably couldn't find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

L. Neil Smith

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I always figured I would live long enough to see a black president. The movies predicted it. Usually, Morgan Freeman.

John Legend

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When you're young, it's hard not to get together with your costar.

Amanda Seyfried

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I look at the artists as mini media companies, like if Beyonce is ESPN and Lady Gaga is Discovery.

Steve Stoute

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Science doesn't have flags. Science doesn't have borders.

Shimon Peres

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As the treaty made with the United States was the first treaty entered into by your country with other countries, therefore the President regards Japan with peculiar friendliness.

Townsend Harris

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What most people do is they make terrific films, one in three if you're very lucky, maybe one in five. So you just have to keep on, you have to get through the bad bits.

Mike Newell

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If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Michael Jordan

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God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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It bothers me to read the comments of leaders of the Hamas and others who hate America that their goal is to have more weaponry capable of delivering all types of weapons of mass destruction.

Don Nickles

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I do not like getting hit. I can take a hit, but I don't want to damage my brain if I don't have to.

Demetrious Johnson

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Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

Chris Hardwick

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I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

Christina Aguilera

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