Amanda Smith Quotes

I just used a lot of my junk and it was all working today. I just try to keep the ball down. I'm not a strikeout pitcher. When we got the lead and added to it that helped to take the pressure off me.

Amanda Smith

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Happens
  • Fan
  • Bully

• I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Hero
  • White
  • Worship

• But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Miracles

• It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Up
  • Good
  • Morning

• I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Edgy
  • Dressed
  • Mixed

• In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I'm not writing I start thinking I can't do it.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Work
  • Growing

• I've never been much of a computer guy at least in terms of playing with computers. Actually until I was about 11 I didn't use a computer for preparing for games at all. I was playing a bit online, was using the chess club mainly. Now, obviously, the computer is an important tool for me preparing for my games.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Chess

• Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Money
  • Capitalism
  • Throw

• I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Myself
  • Laugh

• The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Economy
  • Rich
  • Taxation

• Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Words
  • Language
  • Matter

• If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Story
  • Life Story

• Black history isn't a separate history. This is all of our history, this is American history, and we need to understand that. It has such an impact on kids and their values and how they view black people.

  

  Karyn Parsons
  • People
  • Kids
  • American

• Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Future
  • Win

• In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Business
  • Day
  • Plan

• We all ought to be equal and not see discrimination based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

  

  Niki Ashton
  • Equal
  • Discrimination
  • Orientation

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

  

  Lena Horne
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• I just used a lot of my junk and it was all working today. I just try to keep the ball down. I'm not a strikeout pitcher. When we got the lead and added to it that helped to take the pressure off me.

  

  Amanda Smith
  • Working
  • Pressure
  • Lead