Russell Smith Quotes

Here is a fundamental conflict in educated society: We are not supposed to value beauty so highly, and yet who can defend against its sheer power to move, its rhetorical force?

Russell Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

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BeautyPowerValueConflictSociety

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Jessica Hahn

TogetherGetJustWouldHePreacher

I've always loved artists - creative, spontaneous, laid-back people - but I wasn't meeting these types in real life. So I figured that, given I run a technology company, I should also trust technology to help me find the love of my life.

Jennifer Hyman

LifeLoveTechnologyTrustCreative

A good story is a good story, whatever the medium.

Michael Arndt

GoodStoryWhateverGood Story

I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys.

Sophie Turner

ThinkHandsomeBadKnightLike

One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it's my decision.

Mike Singletary

DecisionYouWantUnderstandMake

When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.

Joseph Monninger

FlySwimJetMuchTiltDoes

On the whole, as we readily acquiesce in the acknowledgment that the field and the cabinet are the proper spheres assigned to our Masters and our Lords, may we also deserve the dignified title and encomium of Mistress and Lady in our kitchens and in our parlours.

Deborah Sampson

LadyDeserveMistressMayWholeOur

I remember singing around the house to records that were playing. All kinds of music. And the great James Cleveland was often in our house, and I grew up with his sound as well.

Aretha Franklin

MusicGreatSingingRememberHouse

Just having conversations with God, begging God to make the pain go away, and then the pain wouldn't go away. So I'm like 'Who the hell am I talking to? God is not responding.'

Prodigy

GodPainHellTalkingGoJust

The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the 'Hell Hath No Fury' album. I tell people all the time that I'll never make another album like that one again. Never!

Pusha T

CarHistoryTimeManPeopleHell

The way I see it, the earth is going to be here after we're dead and gone. Even if it's a polluted planet, and they messed it up. Where do they go from here - to another planet so they can mess that up too?

Richard Pryor

EarthGoWayDeadMessSee

What is reality, anyway? Just a collective hunch.

Lily Tomlin

RealityCollectiveJustAnywayHunch

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