Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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I used to think 'King Lear' was an analysis of insanity, but I don't really think it is. When Lear is supposed to be at his most insane, he is actually understanding the world for the first time.
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To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
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The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
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I should be married and have 19 kids. And now I'm thinking my eggs are dying on the shelf. They're going to go past their expiration date. But it's what I chose, so I'm fine with that decision.
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I just want to continue the way I am going.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
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America was probably Europe's equal scientifically by the end of World War I and certainly surpassed it after the chaos of World War II.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.
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They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.
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Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.
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While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
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The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
