Jimmy Smith Quotes
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.
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If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I weirdly feel very natural, in the physicality that comes my way, whether it's guns, cars or whatever. For some reason, it's second nature to me.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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I feel like, in general, lefties hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers better than right-handers hit fastballs from right-handed pitchers.
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I'm very passionate.
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Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.
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As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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I have no regular schedule. I get up whenever I can.
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I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.
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Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted
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I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but we have some thoughts that all the angels in heaven are welcome to behold -- but not our brother-men -- not even the best and kindest amongst them.
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He who causes suffering shall suffer. There is no escape.
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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
