Keri Smith Quotes

What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

Keri Smith

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• I have selective hearing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Hearing
  • Selective

• I want someone who will love me for the person I am and not because of my status. It has to be someone who understands the pressure of playing for India. It will be very difficult to be with a person who has her own career because someone has to make sacrifices for the family and house.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Family
  • Love
  • Career

• For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Up
  • Me
  • Light

• There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Start
  • Chinese

• Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Party
  • Become
  • Democrats

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• I've always tried to stay behind the scenes, and I intend to keep it that way.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Way
  • Always
  • Behind

• The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Luck

• A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Interesting
  • Effort
  • Liberal

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Peace
  • Sorry
  • Been

• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Think
  • Humor

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Defeated

• Rich people don't like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don't go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Military
  • Revolution

• When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Experience
  • Picture
  • Intelligence

• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Wants
  • Turn

• When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • God
  • Love
  • Fun

• Too often the reformer has been one who caused the rich to band themselves against the poor.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Band

• I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• People who watch a lot of Fox come away knowing a lot less about important world events.

  

  David Frum
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• I've read a lot of war writing, even World War I writing, the British war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves's memoir 'Goodbye to All That,' and a civilian memoir, 'Testament of Youth,' by Vera Brittain.

  

  George Packer
  • World
  • Writing
  • War

• What I'm doing is trying to get kids to pay attention, to look at the physical world more, and to question everything. I am trying to get kids out of the house and away from screens.

  

  Keri Smith
  • World
  • Trying
  • Kids