Carroll Smith Quotes

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• I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Proud
  • Name

• The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • Love
  • Idea
  • Watching

• I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.

  

  Karen Hesse
  • Book
  • Health
  • Teacher

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • World
  • Best
  • Talent

• We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Kids
  • Want
  • Place

• As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Years

• For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Wonder
  • Shoe

• When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Film
  • First
  • Camera

• I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Watch
  • Him
  • Watched

• Be soft, even if you stand to get squashed.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • You
  • Stand
  • Soft

• The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Great
  • Problem
  • Cooperation

• I don't compare myself to anyone else; I don't make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that's okay by me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Feels
  • Right
  • Compare

• I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

  

  Ted Demme
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Happy

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

  

  Yousef Munayyer
  • Great
  • Fear
  • Respect

• Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Nature
  • Ignorance

• I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Inspiration
  • Athlete
  • Champion

• We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Cool

• When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend and things are good in my life, then it's better.

  

  Kygo
  • Life
  • Good
  • Music

• I can now check Oregon off the 'marathon in every state list.'

  

  Brad Feld

• When I was growing up as a young lesbian in the '50s, I looked in vain for books about my people. I did find some paperbacks with lurid covers in the local bus station, but they ended with the gay character's committing suicide, dying in a car crash, being sent to a mental hospital, or 'turning' heterosexual.

  

  Nancy Garden
  • People
  • Up
  • Character

• To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

  

  Anne Heche
  • Work
  • Heart
  • She

• He who understands, as always, can make his car work better than he who does not.

  

  Carroll Smith
  • Work
  • Car
  • Better