Kate Smith Quotes
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When I was a teenager, I was an umpire for a competitive league for 8- to 9-year-olds. I was really bad at it because I didn't know all the rules, and all these kids were better athletes than me. I made a bad call, and this dad snapped on me. Then he dumped his trash from his cooler, and I had to kick him out of the stands.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It seems very safe to me to be surrounded by green growing things and water.
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When it comes to finances, immigrants are far savvier than native-born Americans. They keep their expenses low. They save their money.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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I have always tried to make profitable films because people's offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.
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When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
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Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
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We cannot let our respect for the FBI blind us from the fact the FBI has sometimes come up short of our expectations.
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I also use women as a sex object; maybe I'm kinky. However, I like to talk to them as well.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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I always thought I should be treated like a star.
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I love monsters.
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We do all like to get things inside a barb-wire corral. Especially our fellow-men. We love to round them up inside the barb-wire enclosure of FREEDOM, and make 'em work. Work, you free jewel, WORK! shouts the liberator, cracking his whip.
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In the 1980s, I was quite well known for my knitwear, and a lot of inspiration came from carpets, where I found ways to use structures and colors and depth of colors.
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We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
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Christians often want to hide behind the walls of the church, where we are comfortable, but sometimes we have to come out of the box.
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In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed.
