Deborah Smith Quotes
Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I feel we're at risk that a whole generation of young Israelis, who went to the army, work hard, pay taxes, one day will look around and say, 'Hey, this country is going nowhere.'
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Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.
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I trust it will not be giving away professional secrets to say that many readers would be surprised, perhaps shocked, at the questions which some newspaper editors will put to a defenseless woman under the guise of flattery.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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I don’t feel powerful at all. I am still under this kind of detention, and you know, this is kind of a bail. Even yesterday I realized while trying to take care of the baby, at the park, I had been secretly followed and it’s quite fragile. Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.
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I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
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Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
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I think 'Humans' is more about provoking the idea that there is a class of beings in society that we treat as less than... as subordinates; people who we treat badly and take for granted. Often they are the same people who work hard to keep the city going. We need to think about that.
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I always like to write the songs, and they get turned loose into the world, and who knows what happens to them. That's the joy of being a songwriter. You get to hear what other people do, interpretation-wise.
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I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
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How fantastic that the American ingenuity of NASA scientists got us to Mars. It makes me proud to be an American. I can't get enough of these images from when the probe touched down. These scientists are American heroes.
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Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.
