Betsy Hodges Quotes
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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My mother is extremely interested in everything esoteric.
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I have a natural right to do whatever I want with my body... as long as it doesn't affect anybody else or any other property.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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What is interesting about me isn't that I am a mother, it is who I am. I love my family, but if I just talk to you about being a mother, it's boring. I am sorry, but it's reducing who I really am, and it's really boring.
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I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
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I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.
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In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting married every year.
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I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.
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This may surprise you, but I was arrested in high school.
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Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
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You can decide at 17 that you want to be a professional player. In Argentina, they start very young. They go to school in the morning and then do polo in the afternoon.
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
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Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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I pray and meditate first thing in the morning.
