Betty Cuthbert Quotes

My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

Betty Cuthbert

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• You don't have to become Mother Teresa to make an impact in the world. But nothing can be achieved if, at the very least, we are not talking about it.

  

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• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

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• At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.

  

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• I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.

  

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• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

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• Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

  

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• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

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• Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

  

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• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

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• When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

  

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• If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.

  

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• Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.

  

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  • Up
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• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

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• I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.

  

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• Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

  

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• I am a bit difficult to be around sometimes. I can be stubborn on a lot of things, and I'm set, but I can also adapt in a conflict situation and don't hold on to an ego. I end up seeing the larger good and adapt to it, provided it benefits me. I may come across as a cold person, but I am extremely sentimental.

  

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• My parents always encouraged me and I had a good home life. We were always taught to respect things and other people. It's so different today, because children are just not taught the right way.

  

  Betty Cuthbert
  • People
  • Life
  • Good