Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
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You know, when you first come up, and you get called up to the big leagues, all you want to do is just, you just want to have a career, a nice career. You want to make a living at it.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
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I think New Order have got their own sound. But what we like to do is experiment, using dance music and other things.
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A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.
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My friends and family are my support system. They tell me what I need to hear, not what I want to hear and they are there for me in the good and bad times. Without them I have no idea where I would be and I know that their love for me is what's keeping my head above the water.
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I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.
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When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said, 'You took me to see Barbra Streisand at Madison Square Garden.'
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Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
