L. Neil Smith Quotes

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

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• Lauren Conrad has been described as one of the first people to significantly benefit from the popularity of reality TV.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Reality
  • First

• I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Long
  • Women
  • Best

• I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Women
  • Drama
  • Movies

• I think of 'Twilight' in terms of the fact that the popularity has given us the opportunity to do the things that we love, and now we can pick and choose.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Think
  • Opportunity

• I try and work out as much as I can. When I'm working or travelling, it's tough, but when I'm at home, that time and space is sacred. I do yoga every day.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• It is a myth that art has to be sold. It is not like stocking a grocery store where people fill a pushcart. Art is a product that has no apparent need. The salesperson builds the need in the mind of the buyer.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Mind
  • Art

• We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Live
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Years
  • Alive
  • Now

• Today's children are taught by our culture that we are a cosmic accident. Something slithered out of the primal slime and over billions of years evolved into a human being. We are cousins, ten times removed, to the ape at the zoo eating his own excrement.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Children
  • Today
  • Culture

• I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.

  

  B. Wayne Hughes
  • House
  • Sun
  • Living

• So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

  

  Ed Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven.

  

  Lactantius
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Mountain

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• It was an honour for me to have been able to work with Mr. Mandela in the process that led to the adoption of the interim constitution and our first democratic elections in April 1994.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Work
  • Constitution
  • April

• I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Think
  • Hope

• Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Free
  • Minds
  • Would

• I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much for their work ethics.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Work
  • Look

• The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it's to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they're valued.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Culture

• To justify being listened to, I try to be as well informed as I can. Hence, the travel. Reading is good too. Reading gets you part way there, and I do read pretty voraciously for a guy who's trying to write so much.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Guy

• America's belated embrace of government health care is going to be far more expensive and disastrous than the Euro-Canadian models. Whatever one's philosophical objection to the Canadian health system, it is, broadly, fair: Unless you're a cabinet minister or a big time hockey player, you'll enjoy the same equality of crappiness and universal lack of access that everybody else does. But, even before it's up-and-running, Pelosi-Reid-Obamacare is an impenetrable thicket of contradictory boondoggles, shameless payoffs and arbitrary shakedowns.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Up
  • Time
  • America

• Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

  

  George Washington
  • Government
  • Spring
  • Liberty

• Changing my name was traumatic for me.

  

  Eve Best
  • Name
  • Changing
  • Traumatic

• Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

  

  L. Neil Smith