Richard Norton Smith Quotes

One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

Richard Norton Smith

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CaptureDefineSomethingDifferent

I've never thought of it consciously... I say exactly what I think, and very often it's totally politically incorrect. I get, always, chastised for it. So it's not shtick. But I think I'm the one who says, 'The emperor has no clothes.'

Joan Rivers

ThinkThoughtClothesSayNeverGet

If you can not master your language you must be it's slave.

Jenny Weber

LanguageYouMasterSlaveMustYour

People like Dick Gregory, Paul Robeson, Harry Belafonte and Nina Simone show me what the definition of an artist is - it isn't just to make art but to speak truth to what's happening, speak beauty into the world, speak love into the world and also... get involved.

John Legend

LoveBeautyTruthArtPeopleWorld

You have to pack as much as you can in an hour or 70 minutes. This time around it was 15 songs, so it was a challenge to get them all the right length so you could get them all on.

John Mayall

TimeChallengeYouRightGetSongs

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Robert South

ParadiseAthensRubbishAdam

About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes.

Maury Povich

DressSaidSheYesBecauseFound

China is a very brand-intensive society. The reason that brands are so very important is that they are a way to signal social status.

John Quelch

SocietyImportantWayReasonChina

I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.

Trevor Donovan

ColdNameCameraSayNervousMy Own

You don't have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they're not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Tom Landry

PeopleWinLookingToughFaceYou

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Mika Brzezinski

BirthdayYearCareerGoLet Go

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

Louise Brown

BookNonfictionWorkingNovelNepal

When I raced with Mercedes, I thought I'd learn German. But my wife didn't want to live in Germany.

Juan Manuel Fangio

LiveWifeThoughtLearnWantGerman

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