Betty Smith Quotes
I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
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Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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To get important work done, most leaders organize people into teams. They believe that when people collaborate toward a common goal, great things can happen. Yet in reality, the whole is often much less than the sum of the parts.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.
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Music is part of the life of fashion, too.
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To fight for one's country, to offer one's very life to promote the well being of the United States, is truly a noble undertaking. But so is the vigilance of the citizen who carefully examines our leaders to see if political problems are being solved by wars simply because this seems to be the easiest solution.
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I'm not going to doubt my life.
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I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.
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The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it.
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Central bank's reserve diversification is now a global trend, although different central banks are citing different reasons behind the change.
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I can never give a 'yes' or a 'no.' I don't believe everything in life can be settled by a monosyllable.
