Kate Smith Quotes
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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Whatever has happened to you in your past has no power over this present moment, because life is now.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they keep shelling out money on their education loans. If the economy is looking for a new generation of home-buyers, I can't imagine they'll get it from these folks.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.
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From 1865 to 1965, my race, the black race, was one of the most competitive, entrepreneurial, Christian, moral races in our country. We had the highest percentage of entrepreneurs in the country, the highest percentage of marriage in the country.
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A lot of new artists sign their deal and then go into a development stage for a year or two or sometimes never get out of it. For me, because I had been a working songwriter in town, I had a collection of songs that I was ready to make into an album. At the time, I didn't realize it was becoming an album, but it was.
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The first time we went to the ACMs, no one really knew who we were.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
