C. R. Smith Quotes

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Job
  • Know

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Want
  • Church
  • Religion

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.

  

  Karen Bender
  • School
  • Control
  • Morning

• If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Technology
  • Quality
  • Suffering

• I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Work
  • Force
  • Directors

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Identity
  • Changing
  • Vampire

• I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Time
  • Long
  • Kids

• I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
  • Life
  • May

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Control

• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

  Natasha Richardson
  • Work
  • Moving
  • New York

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Style

• In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • School
  • High

• I eat leftover caviar by hand, with baked potato, like peasants.

  

  Ion Tiriac
  • Hand
  • Like
  • Potato

• It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.

  

  Joe Morton
  • World
  • Different

• We need to put our priority on protecting this exceptional way of life.

  

  Chris Gibson
  • Life
  • Priority

• I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Shoes

• The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

  

  C. R. Smith
  • People
  • Future
  • Government