Bethany Mota Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I'm gonna live my life the correct way, and I'm gonna be a champion the kids look up to and hopefully aspire to be like.
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I really enjoy taking care of people, and I was really ready to have a kid, so I didn't have to sacrifice anything that I didn't want to give up.
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I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.
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At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'
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A cricket ball broke my nose when I was a kid so I couldn't breath through it. Before I had it operated on I used to stand on stage with my mouth slightly open.
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I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
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An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.
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My daughter is not an object to flash around or a prized item to put on display.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
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None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.
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New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.
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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
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I didn't mean to be a songwriter; I just was writing for fun, you have all day to do it. I was homeless so that's all I had to do.
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Once I realized the emptiness of life apart from knowing God, when I embraced God and the truth of the gospel and the truth of the Bible, it was a no-brainer decision to see that that was a treasure that was infinitely more valuable than some sort of an atheistic Hollywood party life.
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For what I give, not what I take,
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I don't want to lie to my subscribers, so I'm really honest about my reviews and stuff.
