William Jay Smith Quotes
I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
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If we don't end war, war will end us.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I do interval training, high intensity dance, and yoga. I do run a lot, but more for speed.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain.
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I wake up some mornings hating me too.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.
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We have to deal with the nation's debt.
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My biggest grouse since the time I filed for divorce has been that when all the drama unfolded, the children were made pawns. That should never be the case. You never know how it affects them.
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When we judge other people we confront them in a spirit of detachment, observing and reflecting as it were from the outside. But love has neither time nor opportunity for this. If we love, we can never observe the other person with detachment, for he is always and at every moment a living claim to our love and service.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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I have felt at times with groups of children that I was really being what every poet would like to be - a bard in the old sense.
