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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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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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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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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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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True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south.
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When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.
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Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?
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Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
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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.
