Ed Smith Quotes

The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

Ed Smith

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One's ability to enter into thousands of lawsuits as a tool for success, or to use bankruptcy to avoid paying your former employees and vendors, have little relevance when trying to create good government.

John Hickenlooper

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I don't really have guilty pleasures - I like what I like. But I've seen a lot - a lot - of 'Taxicab Confessions.'

John Ross Bowie

GuiltySeenPleasuresLikeReally

It's always nice to make friends; friends is good.

Slim Jimmy

GoodFriendsNiceAlwaysMake

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

Tom Robbins

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There's an art to being a good actor, there's an art to being a celebrity, and there's an art to longevity.

Rocky Carroll

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If people wonder, yes, Hillary Clinton is my friend. She has been a friend to me and Barack and Malia and Sasha, and Bill and Chelsea have been embracing and supportive from the very day my husband took the oath of office.

Michelle Obama

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I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

Michelle Williams

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My hope is that if I take good care of my skin and use Botox, I won't have to use anything else.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

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Glenn Close is a living icon. You look at the work, and I think it's wild, because she thinks some of her best work was in Dangerous Liaisons and that's what I believe as well.

Anthony Anderson

WorkBestBelieveThinkYouLook

I wrote a story about a man who is orphaned during the 1927 Mississippi River flood in Louisiana, and he's on the banks of levee, and he's starving. And there are other people starving, too. And he's so desperate, he's seven years old, that he finds a pig that's been abandoned. He kills it with a hammer, and he drags it back.

Susan Straight

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I don't understand what it's all about or what's worth what, but if the people in the Swedish Academy decide that x, y or z wins the Nobel Prize, then so be it.

Richard P. Feynman

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