Jimmy Smith Quotes
All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
Jimmy Smith
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I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.
Jack Kingston
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If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.
Haile Gebrselassie
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
Parker Posey
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I'm a human, and I'm multidimensional. If I was the perfect form of anything, I'd be boring. If I was a free spirit all the time, I would be boring; I would lack depth. If I was dark and enigmatic all the time, then I would lack relatability.
Halsey
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Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.
Babasaheb
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Black people have been fighting for basic citizenship rights since the inception of the country.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Dreams come true, but then things happen that are beyond anything you could dream. To be in a movie and to be in the same room participating in a movie with Meryl Streep? Come on!
BeBe Winans
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The Author to the Reader I’ve read that Luther said (it’s come to me So often that I’ve made it into meter):And even if the world should end tomorrowI still would plant my little apple-tree.Here, reader, is my little apple-tree.
Randall Jarrell
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Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.'
Edward Abbey
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467. I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow isn't insane. We are only doing philosophy.'
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, 'that,' said he, 'the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me.'
Plutarch
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We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.
Desmond Tutu
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I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
Ann-Marie Campbell
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There's a dearth of media around young black women and certainly a dearth of LGBT media for people of color.
Dee Rees
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Life is not fair. And you have to choose your battles, because there are some that you cannot win. If you're passionate about something, then you should pick up your flag and run with it.
Bette Midler
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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white.
Jimmy Smith
