Betty Smith Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Most tragic mistake in history occurred when the United States joined the U.N.
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In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.
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The demographic of young people... in each hand is a phone, more powerful than a computer. It's a doorway to the digital nation, to education.
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Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.
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[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
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We skim over the surface thoughtlessly. But we must acknowledge that thinking well is a time-consuming process. We can't expect instant results. We have to slow down a bit, and take the time to contemplate, meditate, and even pray. It is the only route to a more meaningful and efficient existence.
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Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.
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A child forgets a time of hunger but never forgets the aching want of other things.
