Clint Smith Quotes

One does not read a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks with hopes that it will grant him a career in engineering; he does so because poetry helps him see something in the world that he might not have seen before.

Clint Smith

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PoetryWorldEngineeringCareerWill

Our budget works to reduce and eliminate the risk of attacks at our ports, rails, in the skies, our food supply and roads by allowing for increases in many of the programs and agencies to help protect these important areas of commerce and travel.

Jim Ryun

FoodRoadsTravelBudgetHelpSkies

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Jean-Paul Sartre

ChanceWeaknessBornReasonOut

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

Stanley Hauerwas

MotherSonGodMeStoryShe

Our subjectivity is so completely our own.

Spike Jonze

OwnOurSubjectivity

I made mistakes, but I'm luckier than most. I've got a successful business, lots of fans who think a lot of me and a family who loves me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

FamilyBusinessMistakesMeThink

'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.

Tom Scholz

FriendPowerExperienceToughResult

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

Mickey Rooney

LifeLiveHappyBe HappyMy Life

We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, including that of magical thinking, than we can lump together executioner and victim, good and evil.

Michel Onfray

GoodTogetherGood And EvilEvil

Comedy is similar to hockey... in only one way. You get a lot of credit for assists. So I try to serve whatever the intention is, be it the joke or the story or the scene or the moment or the kiss, even if it's not my joke or moment.

Johnny Galecki

MomentKissHockeyStoryCreditYou

I was a good student when I was a kid, and I did everything I was supposed to do, and I got A's.

Demetri Martin

GoodStudentKidEverythingGotDid

Of all the places I've been, India is the one that's on the top of my list to return to.

Brandon Stanton

IndiaPlacesTopReturnBeenList

Boxing's a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.

Anthony Joshua

ThinkIdiotYouBoxingActLike

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