Deborah Smith Quotes
Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I can say exactly what I feel about any issue, and I'm going to do that.
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In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'
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Being sick is the reason I went into comedy.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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I think I draw my inspiration from a lot of conversations that I had with people or my friends and combine them together with my own personal experience.
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.
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I'm really a normal person.
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There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
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A practical help in keeping your personal purity unblemished in your relations with other people is to begin to see them as God does. Say to yourself, “That man or that woman is perfect in Christ Jesus! That friend or that relative is perfect in Christ Jesus!
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But that quickly faded, and he frowned. "You're bleeding," he said. "What happened?" Claire sighed and held up her wrist to show him the bandage. "Man, you would be so embarrassed if I said it was something else." Michael looked blank. "I'm a girl, Michael, it could have been all natural, you know. Tampons?
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Sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it.
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You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.
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To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.
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Some are created to love, while the others – to live.
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I don't know any musician who got to the top without hard work. Take whoever you want. They all work bloody hard, harder than you think.
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Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.
