Betty Carter Quotes

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

Betty Carter

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• If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
  • People
  • Winning
  • Exercise

• By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Good
  • Girl

• I always joke with people that having nephews is the best birth control there is.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • People
  • Control
  • Best

• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
  • Door
  • Train

• The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • People
  • Live
  • Control

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• I can understand why some people might look at me and say, 'What's she got to be depressed about?' I get that a lot in Britain, where mental health issues seem to be a big taboo.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • People
  • Health
  • Depressed

• There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • People
  • Want
  • Relationship

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

• Diversity in the industry is very lacking, and equal opportunity comes very far and few between for people of color.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Color

• Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Living
  • Master
  • Slaves

• Marriage is socialism among two people.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Socialism

• If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Lady Gaga
  • Bugatti Veyron
  • Chevelle

• Donors want to meet famous people, and getting a high profile draw for a fundraiser is one way to boost both the crowd and the cash. It's why the president and the vice president are always in demand. These folks are in demand because people around the country want to meet them.

  

  Carl Forti
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.

  

  Fanny Brice
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Wish

• I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'

  

  Harper Lee
  • People
  • Real
  • Done

• Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

  

  Meghan Markle
  • People
  • Black
  • Identity

• There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'Sweet Tooth' and 'Trillium.'

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work
  • Sweet

• This wasn't a choice between you and Jacob. It was a choice between who I am and who I should be.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Decision
  • Choices
  • Should

• This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.

  

  Betty Carter
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black