Jeff Smith Quotes

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

Jeff Smith

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• I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.

  

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• I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.

  

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• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

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• Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.

  

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• Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.

  

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• Working in Birmingham for the first time was the best thing, especially as it was round the corner from my mum's house in Harborne!

  

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• The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.

  

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• The overreach of the judiciary can be attributed to, one, the inability of the executive to deliver; and two, the tendency to issue judicial pronouncements for national good. The second element is dangerous because that's the function of the government.

  

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• One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.

  

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• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

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• The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

  

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• I wanted to write a food book, but I'm not a chef or an expert on culinary matters, to put it mildly.

  

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• All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.

  

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• Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.

  

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• I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

  

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• I'm missing an index finger.

  

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• I have a computer and an iPad, but I have no interest in Twitter.

  

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• As a child, what captivated me was reading the poems myself and realizing that there was a world without material substance which was nevertheless as alive as any other.

  

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• In the name of 'mutual assistance,' the Soviet Union would occupy Latvia until 1991, and it continues to occupy Latvia: in the obedient, epic lines at the post office, in the fug of coal smoke outside cities, in the notorious apartment buildings made of bricks of radioactive compressed ash.

  

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• I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

  

  Jeff Smith
  • Chinese