Torrey Smith (James Torrey Smith) Quotes

Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

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• Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Good
  • Live
  • Experience

• I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Work
  • Enjoy

• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
  • Freakish

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• You look at Kawhi Leonard, Tony Allen, Draymond Green: they are great on ball, and they are great team defenders as well. You want to be both of them, not just one.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Great
  • Want
  • Team

• We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Politics

• During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.

  

  Pankaj Patel
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Think

• A friend of mine and I would go to this dirty little bar in Toronto that has karaoke every Tuesday night, and one night, we noticed that the only other person in there was Derek Jeter.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Night
  • Friend
  • Dirty

• There's no such thing, like a female with good looks who cooks and cleans.

  

  Eminem
  • Good

• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Up
  • Heart
  • May

• An education is meaningless unless it equips students to have a better life.

  

  Clarence Thomas
  • Life
  • Education

• But since he has decided to have the impossibility of living, every misfortune is an opportunity which lays this importance of living before his eyes and obliges him to decide, once again, to die.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Opportunity
  • Die
  • Eyes

• The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Different
  • Political

• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.

  

  Kay Cannon
  • Different
  • Funny
  • Cool

• I'm looking to see more women of color not only in companies in technology, but also creating companies.

  

  Kimberly Bryant
  • Women
  • Technology
  • Color

• We're all concerned about the budget. We're all concerned about what's happening financially in our country. There's no question about it. Congress is working day and night. In fact, every time I go home the lights are on at the top of the Capitol.

  

  James F. Amos
  • Time
  • Country
  • Home

• I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Life
  • Job
  • Career

• We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Funny
  • Husband
  • Sad

• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Future
  • Present
  • Better

• I, like every other stupid American, assumed the kangaroos would meet us at the airport and they would want to hug us as much as we wanted to hug them. … In Sydney's zoo I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

  

  Kristen Bell
  • Why
  • American
  • High

• Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

  

  Torrey Smith
  • May
  • Focus
  • Goal