Smithsonian Quotes - Page 1

The dresses I wore are in the Smithsonian now.
Jamie Farr / Film Actor
Dresses
Smithsonian
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The turntable is now an instrument at the Smithsonian.
Ajay Naidu / Actor
Smithsonian
Instrument
Turntable
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I love the Smithsonian. I'm a real dork for that kind of stuff.
John Rzeznik / Musician
Smithsonian
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I've got a portrait in the Smithsonian. Who ever thought that would happen?
Tommy Lasorda / Baseball Player
Happens
Portraits
Smithsonian
Portrait
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The Mothership is in the Smithsonian now. That's probably one of the biggest displays there.
George Clinton / Singer-Songwriter
Smithsonian
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The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
Norm Dicks / Former U.s. Representative
Government
Agency
Institute
Smithsonian
United States
Agencies
Popular
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If I had to pick three of my favorite magazines, they would be 'Fast Company', 'Silicon India', and 'Smithsonian.'
Padmasree Warrior /
India
Magazines
Silicon
Smithsonian
Would Be
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When I had a fellowship at the Smithsonian, I asked for a couch in the office because I liked to lie down and take a break.
Gloria Steinem / Journalist
Fellowship
Smithsonian
Couch
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When I moved to America, I knew I wanted to be a designer. I never imagined one of my dresses would end up in the Smithsonian.
Jason Wu / Fashion Designer
Designer
Dresses
Smithsonian
Imagined
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I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.
Joe Mantegna / Actor
Character
Culture
Smithsonian
Simpsons
Surprised
The Simpsons
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The Smithsonian should box and preserve Tim McGraw's Nashville den for a future exhibit entitled 'Early 21st Century American Man Cave.'
Stephen Rodrick /
Entitled
Nashville
Smithsonian
Box
Cave
Den
Exhibit
Preserve
Tim
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The Smithsonian museums are among this country's most endearing treasures and I look forward to helping maintain and enhance their coveted works of art.
Xavier Becerra / United States Representative
Art
Country
Endearing
Helping
Museums
Smithsonian
Enhance
Maintain
Treasures
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The first job I had with the Smithsonian was as a field researcher among African American communities in Southwest Louisiana and Arkansas for the festival.
Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer
Jobs
African American
Arkansas
Community
Louisiana
Smithsonian
African
Communities
Festival
First Job
Researcher
Southwest
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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer
Smithsonian
University
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I started graduate school in 1971, I started working at the Smithsonian in the festival in 1972. I went full-time at the Smithsonian in 1974. And I got my doctorate in 1975.
Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer
Festivals
Graduate School
Graduates
School
Smithsonian
Doctorate
Festival
Full-Time
Graduate
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer
Curator
Smithsonian
Life Me My Life
Twenty
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I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.
Maggie Rogers /
Rhythm
Smithsonian
Choirs
Listened
Recordings
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I read a book every night. I really am that nerd, so when I get to go to the Smithsonian and get to go in the back rooms and play with stuff, things like that, for a guy like me, that's amazing.
Rick Harrison /
Every Night
Rooms
Smithsonian
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As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
Xavier Becerra / United States Representative
Combination
Congress
Effort
Important
Perspective
Smithsonian
Typical
All Americans
Background
Efforts
Member
Proponent
Visitor
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American.
Bernice Johnson Reagon / Singer
Effort
Smithsonian
Tourists
Washington
Festival
Mall
Minds
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We show people that anybody can paint a picture that they're proud of. It may never hang in the Smithsonian, but it will certainly be something that they'll hang in their home and be proud of. And that's what it's all about.
Bob Ross / Painter
Home
Paint
Proud
Smithsonian
Home People Will
May People Will
Picture
Anybody
Show
Certainly
Hang
Show People
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I have taught history on the high school and college levels, and am or have been a lecturer at the Smithsonian, The National Institutes of Health, and numerous colleges and universities, mostly on science fiction and technology subjects.
Jack L. Chalker / Author
Technology
College
Institute
Lecturer
Levels
School
Science Fiction
Smithsonian
Subjects
Colleges
High School And College
Mostly
Numerous
Universities
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When was the last time you bought an American-made radio or television? If you're Gen X or younger, the answer is 'never.' Does the label on that shirt or skirt you're wearing say 'Made in the U.S.A.'? If so, you probably got it at Goodwill, or maybe at a Smithsonian garage sale.
Seth Shostak / Astronomer
Garage
Goodwill
Last Time
Radio
Smithsonian
Television
Younger
Bought
Gen
Wearing
Label
Shirt
Skirt
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One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.
Craig Mello / Biologist
Bones
Fireman
Smithsonian
Truck
Truck Driver
Driver
Wanting
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