Yeardley Smith Quotes
Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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My perception is that I've never done anything but work really hard.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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The collective judgment of the electorate must be respected.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.
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That match was late evening and I had the experience of the electricity of the Centre Court because it was packed, a full house for the whole match. It had been a great year for me, first time there and I had the full taste of Wimbledon.
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When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously.
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Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.
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The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.
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Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.
