Kate Smith Quotes
I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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For me, for the type of addict I am, when I start getting those swirly thoughts and stuff, and they talk about slippery places, slippery people and slippery things, you know, I need to - I needed to take my cell phone and eliminate all the phone numbers, change the phone numbers so no one I knew before could call me or reach me.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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I don't have a mentor in the strict definition. I take as much advice and inspiration as I can from the people I am close to.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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Crazy old people are our entire source of polling information.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!
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The kind of people that all teams need are people who are humble, hungry, and smart: humble being little ego, focusing more on their teammates than on themselves. Hungry, meaning they have a strong work ethic, are determined to get things done, and contribute any way they can. Smart, meaning not intellectually smart but inner personally smart.
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I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to other people's songs that I heard on the radio and take whatever song and make it about fairies and angels - whatever little girls sing about.
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
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I played Li'l Abner and Batman in school plays; I wanted to be an actor to play all these different characters.
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The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.
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I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.
