Betty Smith Quotes
We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.
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There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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Resign, v. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage.
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I'm a hypochondriac. Yesterday it was brain damage from the vodka the night before. Today, heart attack - my arm and chest started hurting at the same time.
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There are opportunities that I have because I'm a white dude, and it's controversial because that's just the way that the world we live in kind of is.
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We'll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory...let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
