Emmitt Smith Quotes

If I didn't have a scholarship to go to the University of Florida or any school, I probably would have considered the military because my family could not afford to send me to college.

Emmitt Smith

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FamilySchoolCollegeMeGoFlorida

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

Joanna Scott

BetterLiteratureCelebrationImagine

Falling head over heels in love with women was a habit I thought I'd thoroughly grown out of in middle school, when a group of about five girls and I color-coordinated our outfits and spent weekends and even some weeknights sprawled out in each others bedrooms.

Jenna Wortham

LoveWomenHabitSchoolThoughtOut

An angry people cannot create anything that is not imbued with anger.

John McAfee

AngerAngryPeopleCreateAnything

Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner.

Michael Eklund

LifeCommitmentYouBackBecause

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Romola Garai

WomenTruthPoliticsGenderDoing

Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

Dinesh Paliwal

PowerGreatTomorrowBridgesBuild

Where I live, there is a group of fans who take me out to tea every year to pick my brains about what's coming up.

Diana Gabaldon

LiveTeaMeYearGroupOut

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Chris Adrian

WritingFeelTeachersWriteFirst

The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases to have the power and meaning it had when it first started.

Christopher Nolan

PowerMeaningYouFirstSomething

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

HappyBeing HappyPersonalMatter

Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'

Peter Drucker

ComputersExpectationsNowMoreNeed

When I was younger, the pressure was just being cool. I never thought of myself as a cool guy. I always thought of myself as more of the goofy guy.

Paul Walker

MyselfCoolThoughtPressureNever

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