Betty Smith Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I've always really been into science, and in the last five years I've gotten into theoretical physics and the origins of the universe.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?
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I think Ronald Reagan was the best President of my lifetime.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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Nothing is born, nothing dies.
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God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
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It takes a lot of doing to die.
