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Samuel Goldwyn Quotes

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 17, 1882 - January 31, 1974

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Day Intelligence Smart Me Stupid

When I was 8 years old, I sold garden seeds.

Seeds Garden Old Years Sold

Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.

Music Me Writing Place First Poems

You remember what you go through as a kid, what's going to make you listen, what's going to make you respond. I held onto that. People who treated me like that when I was younger got every bit of respect and attention I could give them, because I knew that they were coming at me from almost an equal level.

Jesse L. Martin

Respect People Me Remember Attention

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

People Choose Talented People Who

I am honest; I speak the truth, and I sometimes probably go overboard and speak my mind.

Truth I Am Mind Speak Go Sometimes

I've been awfully busy, and I haven't gone to many movies.

Busy Movies Gone Been Many

Popularizing - much less venturing beyond one's secure turf - was frowned upon for many years. I think I probably internalized the prohibition, even though I was - and knew I was - among the best speakers and writers of my age cohort. I don't mean I was the best historian - a quite different measure.

Age Best Think Measure Beyond Mean

A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people.

People Budget Priorities Values Our

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.

Feel Powerful Television Talk Radio

I also argued before the war that the administration was underestimating Arab nationalism and Iraqi nationalism, that it was not going to be as easy to rule Iraq as they thought.

War Thought Nationalism Easy Going

We borrow 40 cents out of every dollar that we spend. We borrow most of it from countries like China. They have become major creditors of the United States and have more power over our economy than we want them to. So dealing with this is not only the right thing economically, it's certainly right from a moral viewpoint.

Power Moral Want Become Economy

As a kid, Punky Brewster was my idol. I wanted to dress like her and talk like her.

Dress Talk Kid Her Idol Like

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