J. R. Smith Quotes
I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I want to be around people that are just as enthusiastic about the process and storytelling as I am.
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The world has a thousand creeds, and never a one have I; Nor church of my own, though a million spires are pointing the way on high. But I float on the bosom of faith, that bears me along like a river; And the lamp of my soul is alight with love, for life, and the world, and the Giver.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
