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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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
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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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I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
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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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Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes.
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A lot of artists are such narcissists.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.
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I think Amazon is the preeminent pioneer in building a new way of doing commerce: personalized, database-driven commerce, where the big value is not in the purchase fulfillment, but in knowing as much about a customer base of ten or twenty million people as a corner store used to know about a customer base of a few hundred. In today's mass-merchandising world, that's largely gone; Amazon is trying to use computer technology to re-establish it.
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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.
