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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Artists like Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga have more sway over popular minds than a politician.
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After Hollywood, you know if people are interested in you or in the fact that you've been in a movie. You know who your real friends are.
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The Bible has come under fire for making woman the fall guy in man's cosmic drama. But in casting a male conspirator, the serpent, as God's enemy, Genesis hedges and does not take its misogyny far enough. The Bible defensively swerves from God's true opponent, chthonian nature. The serpent is not outside Eve but in her. She is the garden and the serpent.
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At one point, I didn't care. Now I want as many people to hear my music as possible.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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Some people do crossword puzzles. I do books.
