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.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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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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The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights.
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It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
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On a musical level, I do find it rewarding. It's not like I want to blow my brains out while I'm playing these songs from so long ago. I am still surprised by the way the songs are constructed - note choices, the way the arrangements are made, the way these songs are assembled. I'm still amazed at times.
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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.
