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.
Red Smith
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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.
Vikram Patel
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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.
Ted Cruz
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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.
J. B. Smoove
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
Fidel Castro
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I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.
Acker Bilk
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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.'
Nadia Comaneci
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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.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
Barton Gellman
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Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Camille Paglia
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
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I would love to be on 'Glee,' thus furthering the myth that I'm a gay man.
Jennifer Nettles
Sugarland
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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.
Bernard Sumner
Joy Division
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A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.
Alexander Hamilton
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
Randall Munroe
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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
Paloma Faith
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Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.
Soren Kierkegaard
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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.
Red Smith
