Gaddis Smith Quotes
President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible sitution - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.a
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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Maids in India have egos. Big egos. They do not like being spoken to curtly, and they do not like to be abruptly instructed by a woman they do not know. They come with the feeling that they already know everything. So while training them to do things your way, speak gently, and when they do it right, appreciate it.
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I never trusted good-looking boys.
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I always tell people I'm very large in Uzbekistan.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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We know that 99.9% of Arab-Israelis are loyal to Israel.
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If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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I'd say that, first and foremost, I'm a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.
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To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
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Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.
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I can assure you that I have never used my media companies for propaganda, and I will never do so.
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.
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Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
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President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible sitution - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.a
