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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Mon ami, if you wish to catch a rabbit you put a ferret into the hole, and if the rabbit is there he runs. That is all I have done.
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I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.
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Denny O'Neil did some great things with Joker - I thought Greg Rucka used him really well in 'Gotham Central.'
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Poetry’s a mere drug, Sir.
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A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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Oh, I wish I was young again when everything seemed so wonderful!
