William Jay Smith Quotes
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Traditionally, music has been a means of separating ourselves as people from another group of people.
Sam Hunt -
I am a very reclusive, private person.
Camille Paglia -
I don't listen to the radio too much, but usually I listen to Stanley Brothers and Ralph Stanley more than I do anybody!
Ralph Stanley -
For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
Queen Rania of Jordan -
'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Everybody believes in psychiatry; it's supposed to be for our own good. Let psychiatry prove that anybody has an illness, and I'd concede, but there is no physical proof.
Kate Millett
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
Cab Calloway -
A lot of people think I was an overnight success, but I was an opening act for three or four years, and then I signed my contract with EMI. Then it kind of blew up overnight.
Vanilla Ice -
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth -
I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.
Vera Farmiga -
There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
Gary Bettman -
It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
Warren Beatty
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I think Julianne Moore is the most radiantly beautiful human being and isn't messing with nature too much. She seems like a woman who treats her body like a temple. I cannot relate to that!
Mackenzie Davis -
If I find something funny and make an older woman laugh, I love that for some reason.
Nathan Fielder -
Religion is innately irrational.
Christopher Hitchens -
So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.
Jerry Pournelle -
My toughest opponent has always been me.
Muhammad Ali -
When we conduct agriculture, we are, therefore, altering the ecological arrangement that was responsible for our genesis as a species. I think that this is the reason that this alienation has allowed us to see and regard land mostly as a resource. So we have created a problem for ourselves from the word "go," for land is not a resource any more than humans are resources.
Wes Jackson
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I have to finish what I started. I’d have had that beast on my spear by now, except for Prince Meleager. He saw me wound it and thought I was in danger. The gods protect me from men who mean well!
Esther M. Friesner -
I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
Rachel Johnson -
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
Nancy Gibbs -
It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
William Jay Smith