Betty Buckley Quotes

Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

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• A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Think and grow rich.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Grow

• I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Family
  • College
  • Proud

• You must always do what you feel is right.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • You
  • Always
  • Feel

• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Want
  • Career
  • Film

• When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• I think a person has to just be herself.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Think
  • Just
  • Just Be

• I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
  • Think
  • Problem
  • Period

• I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Time
  • World
  • Power

• I'm not really a piano player, but I play enough to get away with it.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Play
  • Player
  • Enough

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Want
  • Nice
  • Moving

• We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Way
  • Find
  • Process

• It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Learn

• On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People
  • Earth

• It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Present

• The colors of light are infinite through refraction, yet they all come from the same source. Thus I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul, nor fail to identify with the most virtuous.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Color

• We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Different
  • Successful
  • Animals

• Our stories are different; our pain is the same.

  

  Betty Buckley
  • Different
  • Pain