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.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I've had Botox. It hurts a lot, but I like it.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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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.
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
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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.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.
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The actors that I admire are able to step into so many different roles.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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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.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.
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I don’t believe man is woman’s natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter.
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I actually don't believe in governance by referendum. I believe that we have a democracy, that we elect people to make decisions.
