Riley Smith Quotes

I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.

Riley Smith

• Business
• Simple
• Everyone
• Genuine

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• A holiday vacation can mean sampling all kinds of new cuisine - whether it's Uncle Joe's award-winning chili or the exotic flavors of Nepal. If your little ones are fussy, be sure to ease mealtime hassles by bringing along a supply of the familiar foods they're accustomed to rejecting at home.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Home
  • Winning
  • Holiday

• I spent ten years riding motorcycles.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Years
  • Riding
  • Spent

• I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I'm attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn't quite what I'm seeing - taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I've never seen before.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Up
  • Story
  • Movies

• With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Today
  • Knowledge
  • Wind

• If you're on a budget, Sweetgreen is a new chain of salad bars that are very good but inexpensive. You choose from a menu or customise your own, with some protein, a healthy salad and a great dressing.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Great
  • Healthy

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Forever
  • Spring
  • Winter

• I like Tel Aviv; I live in Tel Aviv, but our right of return is Jerusalem. We did not return after 2,000 years for Tel Aviv but for Jerusalem.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Live
  • Years
  • Jerusalem

• Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Knowledge
  • Doubt
  • Ignorance

• Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Long
  • Action

• I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Food

• I have admired Kevin Plank and Under Armour from afar. He has assembled an impressive team.

  

  Karen Katz
  • Team

• What happens traditionally in a campaign is they will go out to their list once or twice a week to raise money from their fund-raisers, but when a candidate gets to a general election, you get some donor fatigue because they've already maxed out their campaign to give.

  

  Corey Lewandowski
  • Money

• If salary is your most important consideration, make sure you don't take too much time off beyond the allotted 12-14 weeks of maternity leave - and certainly don't leave altogether.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • Time
  • Important

• In order to protect against being disrupted, startups also need to recruit employees that are committed to life-long learning. The skills that made your team members valuable may not be the skills needed to take your company to the next level or to compete in emerging markets.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Life
  • Long
  • May

• I came to Los Angeles to be an actor, which is, at best, a gamble.

  

  Adam Scott

• I had low self-esteem.

  

  Jennifer O'Neill

• I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

  

  Amos Lee

• A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Couple

• It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • America

• I never knew my father. He was never married to my mother; he was never a part of my life. It was just my mom, my brother and me.

  

  Laverne Cox
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Father

• It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

  

  Keith Urban
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Period

• With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.

  

  Alex Kurtzman
  • Time
  • Different
  • Writing

• There's somethin' about singing, that is the business! You sing, women go crazy! 'Cause Mick Jagger is an ugly motherfucker...with big-ass lips! Mick Jagger's lips so big, black people be goin', 'He got some big-ass lips! These are big motherfuckin' lips!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • People
  • Women
  • Business

• I go home to Iowa. I call it defrosting my heart. Everyone in Iowa is so simple, a genuine. In this business, sometimes you can get cold-hearted. When I go, even if it's 20 below and snowing, I come back with a warm heart.

  

  Riley Smith
  • Business
  • Simple
  • Everyone