Jimmy Smith Quotes

My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • People
  • Me
  • Daily

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• Corruption is everywhere. It's not just in the Congress. Corruption is not just your prerogative or mine.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Congress
  • Corruption
  • Mine

• The family is the school of duties - founded on love.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Family
  • Love
  • For Her

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Old
  • Italian
  • Saying

• It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Great
  • She
  • Play

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I definitely have the screenwriting itch.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Screenwriting
  • Itch

• Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Man

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Earth
  • Conversation
  • Rise

• When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Audience

• You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?

  

  Ian McShane
  • Why
  • She
  • Want

• For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Real
  • Know
  • Me

• I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.

  

  Kevin Chapman
  • Black
  • Funny

• My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Remember
  • Mom
  • Always

• I like a family guy. He must be fun, must like to go out, and has to respect his mom... my family is very important, so it should be likewise for him.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Important
  • Family
  • Fun

• Whatever I get involved in, I'm totally involved, you see.

  

  Ben Shahn

• My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.

  

  Jimmy Smith
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