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Arthur Smith Quotes

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: english
Birth: November 27, 1954

Topics

Memory Remember You Image Atmosphere

If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

You Eat Bring Wear Shoot

Brexit doesn't guarantee that migration will come down.

Down Will Migration Guarantee Come

Shifting loyalties in the Middle East make it difficult to vet supposed moderate groups.

Jeff Fortenberry

Difficult Middle Shifting Moderate

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

Education Good School Grades Want

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Control Want Take Shapes Consistent

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

Robin G. Collingwood

Work Freedom Man Perfect Own Who

I am very much a person who appreciates perennial things. Things like a Lacoste shirt, a Clarks desert boot, Persol sunglasses and Vans shoes that have been the same forever. There are certain things that once you find it, you like it and it's done. I like Italian clothing, like suits from Battistoni and I have a shirt by Piero Albertelli.

Shoes I Am Desert Sunglasses Suits

Don Cornelius gave me an incredulous look regarding my accent. I lessened it; he gave a nod of approval. Instantly, I felt ashamed. I had made my first conscious effort not to sound ethnic.

Effort Me Look Sound First Ashamed

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

Martin O'Malley

Children College Grow Credit Tax

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

Luck Your Fanny By-Product Busting

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

Time Justice American Musicians Act

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.

Douglas Alexander

Politics People Judge You Choice

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