Betsy Hodges Quotes
Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.
Quotes to Explore
-
When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
-
I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
-
I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
-
I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.
-
Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
-
I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.
-
My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
-
If the home is good, all will be good.
-
I got quite good results from protein plates.
-
To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
-
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
-
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
-
Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.
-
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
-
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
-
I think I spent my entire childhood on film sets, surrounded by film-makers and actors and people with magnetic energies who make movies.
-
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
-
Whatever you are, be a good one.
-
I'm not good at chatting right away. Women have to be very patient with me, I suppose.
-
Terrorists are people, too - they are given to error. Naipaul and then DeLillo do a good job in their novels of drawing this out: I'm thinking of DeLillo's contention in 'Mao II' that terrorists have replaced writers as the people who 'alter the inner-life of the culture.' I thought that was marvellous!
-
Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect?
-
I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
-
The problem with me is, anything that's easy I will just overdo it. Especially with clothes. But I'm 14 - my mom is super-strict about that.
-
Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.
