Betty Smith Quotes
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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.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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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.
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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.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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People don't know how good cauliflower is, because they always have this image of cauliflower cheese - awful, sticky, creamy and rich.
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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.'
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My father always says that heroism is in the Pashtun DNA.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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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!
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
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The truth is that painting is all about scale; you use scale to create experience. A lot of artists have lost that ability. They don't even know that's something they should be doing.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
