People Quote by Kenny Smith

“There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to say I'm not a shortcut taker.”

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The approach of intellect or noesis will forever be an effete and limited sort of thing by contrast with the vigor and color of…

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When academics claim a topic is obsolete, they mean merely they are tired of flogging it with their cliches.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