Smooth Quotes - Page 26

• If you're going through difficult times today, hold steady. It will change soon. If you are experiencing smooth sailing and easy times now, brace yourself. It will change soon. The only thing you can be certain of is change.

  James Dobson

  Inspirational Life, Smooth Sailing, Today

  James Dobson (2001). “38 Values to Live By”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back and see the intense times of confusion and challenge, and see that if you keep walking through them, they can lead to times of great satisfaction and reward.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Confusion, Challenges, Rewards

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• Sometimes [Eva Braun] would go back to his apartment to "make up." At the Berghof, these arguments didn't last as long, [Adolf Hitler] would smooth her feathers and they'd be good together again. I doubt anybody else noticed this but me. It wasn't obvious.

  Gretl Braun

  Together Again, Long, Doubt

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• I love a lot of old disco because it's aerodynamic, smooth, and very seductive.

  Jens Lekman

  Seductive, Disco

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Especially with iPhones, iPads and apps, there's just so much detachment that you're just flicking your fingers on a smooth surface to get the weather or whatever.

  Tristan Perich

  Iphone, Weather, Ipads

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal shame, something it seems she would want us to forget (but no one would forget). (Maybe an interesting "discussion question" for readers of Complicated Grief might be, "What do Terry Barton and Miss Havisham have in common?"?)

  Laura Mullen

  Grief, Interesting, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth running of the state as insanity and treating it as such, and so as that happens you see the evolution of a process in which people with schizophrenia are increasingly feared and our hospitals, particularly the kind of hospital that I look at in the book become to look more and more like prisons, to the point where many of them including the one I talk about actually become prisons.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Running, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Special, Shapes, Lines

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if the engine blow up?' 'What if a fool's got a bomb on it?'

  Muhammad Ali

  Blow, Thinking, What If

  "Parkinson" with Michael Parkinson, www.mirror.co.uk. 1971.

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• I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don't think I ever felt young again in that way. I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

  Billy Crystal

  Father, Believe, Book

  "Billy Crystal Finds Fun In Growing Old (But Still Can't Find His Keys)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 29, 2013.

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• No one wants to hear me over some smooth, regular beat, or just into the times. I try to do records sometimes that have a different bounce - maybe it's a Southern bounce or something. And people shoot me all day long.

  Pusha T

  Long, People, Southern

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• It is not only important how long your breath is. What is more important is how smooth and subtle it is. For length of breath without the accompanying subtlety is fruitless.

  T. K. V. Desikachar

  Long, Important, Length

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• Before I even knew what stand up was, I tried to make people laugh at school because that was how I made friends, so I think that's how I got drawn into comedy and obviously I was just some kid at school being silly, so the first time I saw a professional comedian and how smooth and funny the person was I totally got into standup and I would say obviously Richard Pryor was the guy. He's the greatest of all time and then George Carlin, Sam Kinison, Bill Cosby. It's so weird to bring up his name now but leaving out his off-stage antics... you could learn a lot from him.

  Bill Burr

  Silly, School, Kids

  Source: www.smudailycampus.com

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• My sons have to learn that you take the rough with the smooth and they've seen a lot of smooth in the years that they've been around. They didn't see the early years. But both my mum and myself are actors and we constantly tell them it's not easy. But they understand that.

  Andy Serkis

  Son, Years, Actors

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• You just wanted to be normal. It wasn't even being beautiful. I just wanted to be smooth and thin and have, and you know, have beautiful glossy hair and lovely clothes and be able to walk in heels. And I thought that once I did all of that stuff that my life would begin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Beautiful, Hair, Clothes

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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• The Musto Skiff combines the thrill of skiff performance with smooth control and well... it just blows your pants off!

  Tom Jones

  Blow, Thrill, Pants

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• Middle class prosperity is lapidary; the flow of cash rounds and smooths a person like water does riverbed stones.

  Neal Stephenson

  Class, Water, Doe

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• Love is a mighty power,
  a great and complete good.
  Love alone lightens every burden, and makes rough places smooth.
  It bears every hardship as though it were nothing, and renders
  all bitterness sweet and acceptable.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Sweet, Good Love, Love Is

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• The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Artist, Talking, Want

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• Francis Coppola was very generous. We got paid a lot of money and he saw us every day, took us out every night. It was just a lot. Richard Gere was an absolute gentleman. Gregory Hines. You know, I worked with some giants and they were just so smooth. And it was the '80s. That's when people had a lot of money and it was okay to to hang out and be crazy.

  Jackee Harry

  Crazy, Night, People

  "Jackée Harry on 227, Ladybugs, and why she wants to be the next Maggie Smith". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 26, 2016.

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• If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

  Harriet Martineau

  Love, Running, Country

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.163

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• That's why my ires always come comedic in a way because - can I just say something? See, I sound like such a smooth talker.

  Garry Marshall

  Way, Sound, Comedic

  "Fresh Air Remembers Garry Marshall, Creator Of 'Happy Days' And 'Laverne & Shirley'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 20, 2016.

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• Of the hundreds of points to enter and exit that are offered to me, I have to choose the one that I feel is the least wrong, the least fake. It is fake, it is a moment that I choose to erupt the story, but I make it as smooth as I can. What enables me to do it is the skill of filmmaking.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Skills, Fake, Exit

  "They Should Be Grateful: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with Zachary Wigon, filmmakermagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I have my eye on everything that's of the moment. All the dances, I can do everything that they're currently doing but still keep it smooth. So, I really made it something you can dance to in the summer time but keep it comfortable. You're going to be fly but you don't have to sweat hard and at the same time the song is real sexy.

  MC Hammer

  Summer, Sexy, Song

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

  Bill Goldberg

  Basketball, Jobs, Athlete

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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