J. R. Smith Quotes
Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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A community having the breadth and scope of a people still cannot claim to be an ethnic community unless and until there emerges from its mentality a distinctive culture particularized by the community's special character.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
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Big boss man, can't you hear me when I call? You ain't so big, you're just tall.
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'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.
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I do wear a lot of hats, and sometimes people get confused with all that I do, but one thing that I am extraordinarily passionate about is furthering women's rights. I think it's something that's incredibly important, not just for girls everywhere but also boys to get involved in.
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Laughter would be bereaved if snobbery died.
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I had really good relationship with my students; it definitely took me a few months before I had my students' respect.
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Building stuff. Lifting blocks. That's how I got stronger. I never lifted weights. I just did masonry work with my pops.
