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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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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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 don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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The thing about collaborators is that you don’t know you are one whereas as a member of the resistance, you do. In WWII, the worst cases of collaboration weren’t among the real collaborators, that official militia, but among the people at large, who were collaborators without knowing it, by a sort of laxity, an apathy.
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Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
