Smokey Robinson Quotes

I played golf all over Detroit.

Smokey Robinson

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GolfDetroitOverPlayed

I just love pranks, man. They're great. I don't understand why people don't do 'em more often.

Jermaine Fowler

LoveGreatManPeopleUnderstand

Our culture doesn't ask about preserving the essence of pig; it just asks how can we grow them faster, fatter, bigger, and cheaper. We know that's not a noble goal.

Joel Salatin

CultureGrowGoalPigKnowNoble

When you handwrite something, you're writing your most raw, pure thoughts. If you want to change it, then you have to mark it out, and people can see you laboring over that thought. I think even the act of hand, pen, and paper is much more intimate than with a computer screen.

Jenny Han

ChangePeopleThoughtsWritingThink

But truth is most likely to be exhibited by the general sense of contemporaries, when the feelings of the heart can be expressed without suffering itself to be disguised by the prejudices of man.

Mercy Otis Warren

TruthHeartManSufferingTruth Is

For me, faith is more about aspiration than complacency - the smug satisfaction that other people find distasteful.

Tom Hollander

FaithPeopleMeComplacencyFind

Ben Karlin is a friend of mine and was a writer on 'The Daily Show.' He's just put out a book and asked a bunch of writers from various disciplines to contribute. It was called 'Things I've Learned from Women Who've Dumped Me,' and of course I agreed, and then I actually had to sit down and write it. God, writing fiction is terrifying.

Tom McCarthy

FriendWomenDailyGodMeWriting

The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air.

Mary McCarthy

CharacterEyesHaircutAmericanBad

We always train with heavier sparring partners to make it harder so the fight will be easier.

Jose Aldo

FightTrainWillAlwaysMakeEasier

I'm aware that people see me as a sex symbol. But I know I can act.

Diora Baird

PeopleMeSexI CanKnowSee

I'd actually been making my living as an organist with bands since I was probably 15 or 16 years old, and then as a senior in high school I put together a jazz quintet called The Bobby Mack Jazz Quintet.

Bobby McFerrin

TogetherSchoolHigh SchoolLiving

I see the beard and cloak, but I don't yet see a philosopher.

Aulus Gellius

BeardSeeI SeePhilosopherCloak

I like sunglasses, the bigger the better, but I lose about a pair a week.

Paul Wesley

SunglassesBetterWeekLoseBigger

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