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.

Deborah Smith

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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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.

  

  Calamity Jane
  • Fall
  • Winter
  • Town

• Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Good
  • Men
  • Value

• 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.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• 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.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

  

  Vera Wang
  • She
  • Woman
  • Never

• We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Money
  • Night
  • Lie

• I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Like

• A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Like

• If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • You
  • Player
  • Basketball

• 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.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • May
  • Today
  • Peace

• I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Always
  • Geek
  • Closet

• 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.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Today
  • Value

• 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.'

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Work
  • Country
  • Day

• Fundamental preparation is always effective. Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Work
  • Game
  • Preparation

• 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.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Woman

• I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • School
  • Never
  • Acting

• 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.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Trying
  • Powerful
  • Baby

• I think what you have to recognise is everybody has their own deal, and everybody has challenges. Do I think that it was easier for me because at a certain point in my career I didn't have children? Yeah, I think absolutely so. But everybody has their own deal.

  

  Beth Brooke
  • Children
  • Career

• One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.

  

  Mark Walport
  • Brain

• Plus-sized women have been told for so long to cover up. Whether it's with a one-piece, a tankini, a bikini with a skirt, high-waisted things, we're always told to hide these things that society calls flaws.

  

  Philomena Kwao
  • Up
  • Long
  • Women

• In the old days we used to get more referrals, because people had insurance that paid for therapy. Now they belong to HMOs, and we can only be affiliated with a few HMOs.

  

  Albert Ellis
  • People
  • Insurance

• I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.

  

  Douglas Coupland
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• Happy people look young. You’re really afraid of getting older, aren’t you? You should only be afraid of getting less happy.

  

  Deborah Smith
  • People
  • Happy
  • Afraid