Academia is alas full of special interests and specialists who presumed it was possible to "leapfrog" over this or that entire line… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Values and verdicts never bother me half as much as people trying to weasel their way around them, or people compromising their… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If I've surprised others, I haven't surprised myself with the way I've played. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
My high school coach used to tell me there's no correct way to shoot, that the only correct way was to get… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I started playing basketball when I was 6 or 7. I wasn't strong enough to shoot the correct way, so I just… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Human beings "belong" to some minor comity or enclave of faith at the expense of the clarity and autarkia of their intelligence… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
Sadly the very thing that strikes us as obvious always defeats our thinking about it in more penetrating ways: just as the… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
(The terms douloi, banausoi and aristoi) are in a way more precise, but what is more vital and valuable, they are more… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"The people" is that massive portion of a society that lives by its pathetic subjection to sheer immediacy or self-obviousness, and that… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
"Cynicism," like "heresy" and "heterodoxy" and "atheism" and "agnosticism" and "paganism" and "heathenism," is above all else a way for organized orthodoxy's… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
If you look at the NBA, it's the richest and wealthiest group of African-American men in the world. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
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… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The Rockets have a philosophy of what they think their coach should be. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've played more park games than NBA games, and I had a 10-year NBA career. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
People compose the schedules they do out of the priorities they have; and someone who says otherwise is deceiving himself about what he really… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
