J. R. Smith Quotes
Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
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I like someone who doesn't take life too seriously. I hate people who are a bit uptight.
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I'm pretty pro-food.
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What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
