Betty Smith Quotes
Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
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Jon Bon Jovi is remarkable.
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And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.
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As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
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It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
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Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
