Tom Smothers Quotes

It's hard for me to stay silent when I keep hearing that peace is only attainable through war. There's nothing more scary than watching ignorance in action.

Tom Smothers

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We talk about players of yesteryear, guys who could play or couldn't play, and I think it's ridiculous to try to even compare people... The things that you can do in basketball today that you couldn't even do then... you can carry the ball; you walk all over the place.

Jerry West

TodayWalkPeopleBasketballThink

I'm not on Facebook because I can't open the door to the past.

Jessica St. Clair

PastDoorOpenFacebookBecause

I don't watch a lot of television. I try to watch all the good movies, but I've got about twenty of these television series that I should be watching. I haven't seen 'The Wire.' I haven't seen 'Mad Men.' I haven't seen Kevin's thing. What's that called? 'House of Cards.' I hear it's wonderful.

Jeremy Irons

GoodMenHouseTelevisionMadCards

An orchard can grow pastured poultry underneath. A beef cattle or sheep farm can run pastured poultry behind the herbivores, like the egret on the rhino's nose.

Joel Salatin

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I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

John Garfield

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Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

John Cho

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I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.

Andrew Bird

BelieveWorthYouDownKindWrite

Early in my career, I didn't want to disappoint my colleagues, clients, or family. So I said yes to everything. This ended up raising my stress level and shortchanging everyone else - including myself - because I couldn't give anyone 100 percent of my time, nor could I pay close attention.

John Rampton

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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Stephen Leacock

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There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections.

Tom Lehrer

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Everyone has a role, no matter where you are on the globe.

Jay Ellis

YouMatterEveryoneWhereRole

I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.

Suzy Kendall

SexyWantCostBeingWorkingAvoid

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