George Smathers Quotes

Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

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• Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Always
  • Vision

• Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Best
  • Wine
  • Champagne

• As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Struggle
  • Battle

• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Grow
  • U.S.
  • Must

• For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

  E. B. White
  • Always
  • Complicated
  • Limit

• Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Police
  • Video
  • Surveillance

• I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Up
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Motherhood
  • Pious

• We are all terminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Terminal

• I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Real
  • Me
  • Comedy

• I really don't like to take the easy way out, if I can help it, on anything I do, I like to really make it a challenge. I don't know how to create by taking the easy routes. I've tried, you know, I've tried to let myself, but I always struggle to compensate.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Help
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Blessed
  • Something
  • Special

• Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Change
  • Die
  • Old

• I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Think
  • Past
  • Seeing

• There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Good
  • Young
  • Italian

• My focus is on my constituents.

  

  Randy Hultgren
  • Focus
  • Constituents

• The importance of certain problems concerning the facts will be inherent in the structure of the system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Problems
  • Facts
  • Will

• Resolution 1441 does not give anyone the right to an automatic use of force. Russia believes that the Iraqi problem should be regulated by the Security Council, which carries the main responsibility for ensuring international security.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• I don't think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

  

  Anita Baker
  • Black
  • Strong

• In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around it. Those obstacles create an amazing sense of humor, of fun, and, ultimately, of integrity. The fiercest and savviest women I have ever known are the women I grew up with.

  

  Connie Britton
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• I always thought I was really thick.

  

  Jeremy Gilley

• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Black
  • Color
  • Green

• Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.

  

  George Smathers
  • Fun
  • Going On
  • Kennedy