Bethany Mota Quotes

I don't want to do something unless it feels organic.

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• When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Money

• A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Job
  • Nice

• If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Figures
  • 20th Century

• When boasting ends, there dignity begins.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Dignity
  • Begins
  • Boasting

• Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.

  

  Ted Kulongoski
  • Me
  • Healthy
  • Starting

• Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Winning
  • Losing

• When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Father
  • Myself

• I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • She
  • Girl
  • Go

• I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Guide
  • Once
  • Tour

• Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Live
  • Myself
  • Conscience

• Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Light
  • Marriage
  • Religious

• In its solitariness the spirit asks, What, in the way of value, is the attainment of life? And it can find no such value till it has merged its individual claim with that of the objective universe. Religion is world-loyalty.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • World
  • Universe

• When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• The pose of innocence is as mandatory as the ability to eat banquet food and endure the scourging of the press.

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • Food

• My mum, Helen, was hilarious. She had a tremendous sense of humour and was a great singer and tap dancer. For many years, she was the voice of Minnie Mouse in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. She would be in the float as it came along, singing whatever the Minnie Mouse song of the day was. She was a really big spirit in my life.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Great
  • She

• The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means safe neighborhoods, secure borders, and protection from terrorism. There can be no prosperity without law and order.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Home
  • American

• Before the Beatles, America was musically a very conservative country. You can see film footage of people at a baseball game, they all had hats and ties on, and the women were dressed up like they were going to church. That was the America that I started getting interested in musically.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Up
  • Women

• Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Space
  • Worlds
  • Transient

• You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog, I call them troublemakers, because they are troublemakers, I am proud to be called a radical Buddhist. If we are weak, our land will become Muslim.

  

  Ashin Wirathu
  • Proud
  • Buddhist
  • Troublemakers

• Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• Edgy is fine - I'm not a prude by any stretch of the imagination - but what's wrong with a good ol' belly laugh? I miss that.

  

  Carol Burnett
  • Good
  • Imagination
  • Edgy

• Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Tired
  • Americans

• I don't want to do something unless it feels organic.

  

  Bethany Mota