Hedrick Smith Quotes

#1. Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

Sachin Tendulkar

#2. It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Cab Calloway

#3. This is precisely the purpose of censorship - not only to block unwanted views, but to keep people who are unhappy from knowing how many millions of others share their unhappiness; to keep the dormant opposition from awakening to its own developing strength.

Hedrick Smith

#4. Journalists cover words and delude themselves into thinking they have committed journalism.

Hedrick Smith

#5. It is absolutely stunning. You cannot read numbers that communicate what the reality is. That's part of what I'm trying to get across and that's partly why I use video.

Hedrick Smith

#6. Shirley MacLaine: what an asshole.

Julie Klausner

#7. Television's compelling power is its immediacy .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

Hedrick Smith

#8. The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

#9. He didn't pick her; you don't choose who you fall in love with any more than you choose the shape of your bones.

C.J. Carlyon

#10. Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.

Milo Ventimiglia

#11. I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

Douglas Wilson

#12. Russians will consume marinated mushrooms and vodka, salted herring and vodka, smoked salmon and vodka, salami and vodka, caviar on brown bread and vodka, pickled cucumbers and vodka, cold tongue and vodka, red beet salad and vodka, scallions and vodka-anything and everything and vodka.

Hedrick Smith

#13. I mean, you can throw any two people together, it doesn't mean they'll fall in love. Everyone knows this. No one quite understands how it works. It's just those people, where they are in their lives, how circumstance throws them together.

Maureen Johnson

#14. When I go back to the core of my childhood, my cousin Lucy seems always to be in the peripheral vision of my memories. She is off to one side, always off to one side, with a book, with a scheme or a project or an enterprise.

Martin Amis

#15. Lightning is like an elementary spirit, eccentric or rational, clever or silly, passing from one extreme to the other.

Camille Flammarion

#16. While we are guarding the country, we must accept being the guardian of the finest ethics. The country needs it and we must do it.

Creighton Abrams

#17. Instinctively we struck out for dignity first because personal degradation as an inferior human being was even more keenly felt than material privation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. If you're afraid of everything out there, you quit going out there.

Jesse Eisenberg

#19. The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

Robin Sharma

#20. For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it.

Claudia Llosa