Betsy Hodges Quotes
Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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Let’s be clear about this. The rejection of the constitution was a mistake that will have to be corrected.
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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
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The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
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My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.
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Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job.
