Elliott Smith Quotes

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Elliott Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 6, 1969 - October 21, 2003

Topics

PeopleBetterDoingYouArgument

The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payroll taxes to buy mandatory public insurance. In fact, that's the system we call Social Security and Medicare, and both are so popular politicians dare not touch them.

Robert Reich

CuriousMindInsuranceSecurityDare

Generally speaking, if you control matter more precisely, you can get more efficiency out of any process.

Steve Jurvetson

ControlProcessEfficiencyYouMore

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

Steve Jobs

IntelligenceSmartBelieveViewSome

Where were they when the Russians went down?

Stacy Keach

DownWhereRussiansWere

I told you, the dopes are gonna inherit the earth anyway.

Sidney Buchman

YouEarthInheritAnywayGonna

The West has become very sophisticated, seeing love as a very complex thing. In Bollywood, it's not complex: it's an arrow straight to the heart.

Simon Beaufoy

LoveHeartSeeingBecomeComplex

I've had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O'Connor told me, 'Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you'll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.'

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

JusticeMondayMeFridayWeekend

You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry.

Michael Pollan

PlantsWorldLanguageYouKnowOut

I worked with everybody, the best, and they actually paid me money to stand next to the people I idolized.

Bobby Sherman

BestMoneyPeopleMeStandNext

We are not out to boast that there is so much percentage of growth per year. Our real concern is how it affects the lives of people, the future of our country.

Aung San Suu Kyi

GrowthFuturePeopleYearCountry

I've got to take care of the knee to finish the season healthy.

Asdrubal Cabrera

CareTake CareHealthyFinishTake

I am a basketball junkie, and as a product of the great basketball state of Kansas, I have watched many a ball game between the University of Kansas Jayhawks and the Tar Heels.

Sheri L. Dew

GreatI AmBasketballGameProduct

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