Arthur Smith Quotes

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• The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Men
  • History
  • New

• The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.

  

  Edie Falco
  • High
  • Want
  • Interesting

• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Water
  • Film
  • Years

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • School
  • High
  • Day

• Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Going
  • Inside
  • Outside

• I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'

  

  Nadia Giosia
  • Baby
  • Look
  • Chocolate

• The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fashion

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Father
  • Me
  • Religious

• To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Way
  • Afghanistan
  • Camel

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Communication

• No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • War
  • Inevitable
  • Breaks

• Love just happens, you know.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Love
  • Know
  • Happens

• Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to let me buy every car I want. If I was single, I would be living in a very small apartment and renting a warehouse full of cool cars.

  

  John Lasseter
  • Small
  • Single
  • Amazing

• What I realized is that it doesn't matter how big or small your film is. The actual filmmaking process, the actual storytelling, it's still the same thing. It's still all about creating characters that you like and creating moments that get you excited or get you tense.

  

  James Wan
  • Small
  • Moments

• I just like to have one foot in Montana and one foot out.

  

  Max Baucus

• I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. There weren't many degrees offered in computer science, so people in computers were brilliant people from mathematics, physics, music, zoology, whatever. They loved it, and no one was really in it for the money.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Industry
  • Computers
  • Computer science

• The pun exists in a social and political void, caring nothing for the issues of its day, content merely to display itself in its small cleverness.

  

  Arthur Smith
  • Political
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