Ifs Quotes by Kenny Smith

8 Ifs quotes by Kenny Smith

Kenny Smith’s commentary is energetic and clear. These eight concise thoughts on 'Ifs' reflect his knack for turning possibilities into engaging, relatable moments.

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All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its…

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If you like capitalism, you will positively love depressions, because they are one and the same, like manic-depressives and their cycles, like…

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But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have…

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I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up.…

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The music of all the different media of life-memories, images, feeling-tones, poetic-musical connotations of phrasing-is kaleidoscopic and doesn't repeat itself or recur.…

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Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in…

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(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more…

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Hegel understood the Heisenbergian reality of knowing: yes, it would be nice if we could somehow delicately capture the truth and bring…

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One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House…

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When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.

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If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world.

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In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

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How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than…

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There are a lot more famous fathers out there than me with daughters who wouldn't mind singing careers... but the talent and the work…

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Games like 'Call of Duty' and 'NBA Baller Beats' have so much to them. I was more of the 'Pac-Man' generation where we were…

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The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be.

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I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career.

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I'm always the neutral guy, man. I'm able to bring people together.

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People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really…

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There's hasn't been a day in my life since I was 9 years old that I haven't touched a basketball or done something connected…

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You can have your own thought process about things, but you still need to include and co-exist with other people.

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NCAA is looking at how to do a better job enforcing their rules instead of looking at why the predatorial environment is created. There's…

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