Betty Smith Quotes
Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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Golf is played with the arms.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to speak out about their frustration about the polarized country that we live in politically.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.
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How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we love more than our own breath, and still ache to think of the one who caused us pain all those years ago? It's the betrayal of this second heart of ours, its flesh tied off like a fingertip twined tightly round with a single hair, blue-tinged from lack of blood. The shameful squeeze of it.
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You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day.
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Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.
