Betty Smith Quotes
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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My father had a lot of allergies, and he just didn't like the cold of Chicago, and his father - his parents had broken up when he was young, and his father had lived in Pasadena for a while, and he kind of fell in love with Southern California.
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When I was a young boy, I was obsessed with skulls and mummies and things like that.
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If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.
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Love is a wonderful thing that one misses.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
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Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
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Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.
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Every offense is avenged on earth.
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Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting.
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Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
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Research clearly shows us that the earlier women think about maintaining their bone mass and take the steps to do so, the better their health will be in the long run.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
