Betty Smith Quotes

Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

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• It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • Good
  • May
  • Truth

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Up
  • Always
  • Dance

• The director had come to Madrid to court me.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Director
  • Come
  • Court

• I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Think
  • Death
  • Day

• A lot of comedians do bits where they say, 'I was listening to this song, and this person said this, and you know how they say that?' And I thought it would work better if I actually had a DJ put that song lyric right there. It makes it more dynamic, and it's more energetic.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Work
  • Song
  • Listening

• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • More
  • Questioning

• I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Attention
  • Student
  • Paid

• I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Tomorrow

• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Water
  • Memory
  • Fish

• We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

  

  Ted Engstrom
  • Learning
  • Process
  • Mistakes

• Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Lyrics

• People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Good
  • Rich

• I go out and speak to women's groups all the time, and I say, 'Guys, you gotta laugh and find the humor in things. You gotta pass it on.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Time
  • Women
  • Humor

• My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Heroism
  • DNA

• Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Complicated

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• If you're a beautiful Caucasian woman, and you commit a heinous crime, it's like people don't want to acknowledge the reality of your actions.

  

  Alissa Nutting
  • Crime
  • Actions
  • Acknowledge

• I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Time
  • School
  • Black

• I think the people at my record label know I'm a Christian and again, I've been really blessed that I've never had to get into a head-butt war over moral standards or anything like that.

  

  Jon Gordon Langseth Jr.
  • People
  • War
  • Christian

• There's this perception of D.C. as a boring town run by old white men, but in reality, there are incredibly young people in charge of really important things.

  

  Kristin Gore
  • People
  • Men
  • Important

• There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

  

  Dorothea Brande

• Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.

  

  Betty Smith
  • People
  • Book
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