Betty Smith Quotes
It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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I'm a dork!
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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A lot of the things I was doing on the first couple Washed Out releases was very naive.
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Long time ago, people would make the Bible, right? The guy said it, somebody wrote it down. And then if you wanted another copy of it, another human being wrote another one. It took a long, long time. Somebody created this thing called mimeograph paper and so you said, 'OK, we'll do it that way.' And so you could get three of them.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
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I'm a workaholic.
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Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.
