Charles Hugh Smith Quotes

Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

Charles Hugh Smith

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• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Trust
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Basically, it's in your best mental interest to release your anger so you can see the world more clearly around you and seek better solutions for finding the happy, love-filled life you desire and deserve.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• Many, many people of the Revolutionary generation, the generation that fought in the Revolutionary War, understood that slavery was somehow in contradiction to what America was saying it was. And many of those folks also, at the very least, gave land to African Americans when they were liberated.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • War
  • America

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• If you are afraid to fail, then you should go and become a banker.

  

  Yossi Vardi
  • You
  • Afraid
  • Become

• You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • You
  • Pain
  • Talent

• You don't need a uniform color: We used a mixture of brick red, browns and grays, and then threw in seashells, branches and various types of rock, so our walls ended up looking like cave paintings!

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Color

• From my years of work with so many game show production companies and their producers I'm probably no longer eligible to be a contestant on any American game show.

  

  Randy West
  • Work
  • American
  • Game

• Gandalf is in Middle-earth to keep an eye on everybody, and that can be a rather serious matter.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Earth
  • Serious
  • Eye

• A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Doing
  • Jazz

• I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Big

• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Power
  • Violence
  • Rules

• It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Pretty

• His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith

• In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• I hope that this execution is the last act of the tragedy of the Second World War, and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany.

  

  Arthur Seyss-Inquart
  • World
  • Believe
  • War

• Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

  

  Athenaeus
  • Nature

• It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.

  

  Betty White
  • Fun
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• I am not a pessimist, but I am not an optimist about the future of American democracy.

  

  David Souter
  • American
  • Future
  • Democracy

• There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Children
  • Reality
  • Present

• If your appraisal comes back too low - you don't have at least 10% equity for a conforming loan or 20% for a jumbo loan - you might not be able to refinance at all, at least with a loan that's packaged and sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That means you may have to pay a much higher rate.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • May

• We should because when coaches get fired, the players have a lot to do with it.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Players
  • Coaches

• I wanted to be a teacher. I love children, so I wanted to deal with children. Then I wanted to be a veterinarian. But by the age of ten or eleven, when I opened my mouth and said, 'Oh, God, what's this?' I kind of knew teaching and being a veterinarian were gonna have to wait.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • God
  • Children
  • Age

• Reality, unlike perception, cannot be changed by propaganda.

  

  Charles Hugh Smith
  • Reality
  • Perception
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