Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
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I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't disregard that. It's a privilege.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.
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I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn't, so in the end they just released it themselves.
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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Let it be known: I am a free agent. I'm operating as an independent label. I do not have corporate sponsors. I don't have no corporate backing. I don't have no major distribution.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.
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When I moved to New York, I had to let my band know that I couldn't play anymore, and that was difficult to leave that behind.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
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A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.'
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The benefits from stardom as Klinger outweigh any setbacks. It's a double-edged sword. What makes you famous is what interferes with getting other roles.
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It's not uncommon for a big free agent to come to a new club with a big contract and not perform up to his standards.
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.
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The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.
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It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.
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Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.
