Betsy Hodges Quotes

I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

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• I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• I don't like the blame game, though.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Game
  • Like
  • Blame

• Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Energy
  • Player
  • Year

• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Family
  • Exercise
  • Arrogance

• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Like
  • Hurts
  • Botox

• Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Perfect
  • Easier
  • Moderation

• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Step
  • Admire

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Understand
  • Word
  • Clever

• I make images from things I find serendipitously. I don't know what it is, but I know it when I see it. It could be from a newspaper, on the street. It could be something I fell over.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Know
  • Find
  • Street

• Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Paris

• That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Long
  • Together
  • Band

• It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Different
  • School
  • Career

• It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Adventure
  • Champions

• I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Mom
  • Daughter
  • Honor

• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  

  Evelyn Boyd Granville
  • Society
  • Education
  • Limitations

• I really don't have that many run-ins. People by and large are very nice to me.

  

  Norma Deloris Egstrom
  • People
  • Nice

• Yesterday, after the Thanksgiving parade, Donald Trump appeared at Macy's to promote his new line of fragrances and business suits. Unfortunately, there were high winds and Trump's hair nearly killed two people.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Business
  • High

• My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

  

  Scott Thompson
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Theory

• I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.

  

  Betsy Hodges
  • People
  • Believe
  • Democracy