Jimmy Smith Quotes

Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

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• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • I Love
  • Fonda

• Most rich countries have reported increases in happiness as they become richer.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Happiness
  • Rich
  • Become

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Nature
  • Giving
  • Beauty

• You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Luxury
  • Fragrance

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I buy when other people are selling.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Business
  • Selling

• 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.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Reason

• 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.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Crazy

• Actors are intelligent. Yet, many of them do not communicate well. That's what makes it so hard to have a relationship with one.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Relationship
  • Intelligent

• 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.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Good
  • Why
  • Without

• I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hat

• I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Different
  • Family
  • Truth

• It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Make your office comfortable for you, and optionally comfortable for others.

  

  Randy Pausch

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• Nigeria, with the oil sector, had the reputation of being corrupt and not managing its own public finances well. So what did we try to do? We introduced a fiscal rule that de-linked our budget from the oil price.

  

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

• It swam crossways in the direction of the Nautilus with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather feet, fixed to its head, that have given the name of cephalopod to these animals, were twice as long as its body, and were twisted like the furies' hair.

  

  Jules Verne
  • Animals
  • Direction
  • Nautilus

• When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • World
  • Pretty
  • Revolution

• I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

  

  Bradley Wiggins

• Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.

  

  Jimmy Smith