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Jeff Smisek Quotes

When I was a child, I didn't fly - we couldn't afford to fly. Flying was for rich people.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: 1954

Topics

Child People Fly Flying Rich Afford

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Life Poetry People Think View Army

Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? It's fun to play villains and character roles, of course - but I'm sure it's also fun to be a really big star and play the lead in everything, where all you have to do is show up and not blink.

Character Fun You Play Know Nice

I don't know that the referee can be watching holding on the offensive line and get back to the quarterback. I think watching the quarterback is a full-time job.

Job Think Back Know Watching Line

The public Yao was the private Yao: To his core, there was an unmistakable peace to him.

Peace Him Core His Public Private

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

Time America First Time First Star

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

Past Government Situation Party Same

Major League Baseball has prostate awareness for two weeks leading up to Father's Day, and I want to get involved in that.

Father Day Baseball Want Awareness

Any great art is meant to illuminate the human condition.

Sterling K. Brown

Great Art Human Illuminate Great Art

I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that.

Child Lesson Kind Run Write Used

I won't complain about touring, because I really do believe that a public-figure musician complaining about being a public-figure musician is just absurd. Like, 'Boo hoo hoo! I have to stand on stage and people pay attention to me!'

People Me Believe Stand Attention

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

Father Moment Religion Believe Feel

I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.

Jonathan Lethem

Love New York Writing Energy You

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