George Smathers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
-
As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
-
I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
-
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
-
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.
-
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
-
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.
-
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.
-
My inherent belief is that motherhood is pious, and I am humbled by it.
-
We are all terminal.
-
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.
-
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
-
I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving.
-
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.
-
I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I couldn't resist the urge to steal a smoke. It was at that time that I was gifted Allen Carr's book 'The Easy Way to Stop Smoking.' After I read that book, I didn't touch a fag again.
-
The Elian events were shocking to Cubans because we were the fair-haired boys of the Cold War. The problem is, the Cold War ended.
-
What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
-
We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.
-
Kennedy was a lot of fun, always. He had something going on. But not Nixon.
