Betty Ford Quotes
I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
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I think people do their bravest work when given an elusive canvas. That would be seemingly the weirdest, but also the most wonderful.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
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The way it works at Julliard is that you just perform with people who are in your own class.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn.
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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.
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I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.
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When a man is born from above, the life of the Son of God is born in him, and he can either starve that life or nourish it. Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished. Our ordinary views of prayer are not found in the New Testament. We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves; the Bible's idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
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I've always liked home-cooked meals.
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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
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Every culture has contributed to maths just as it has contributed to literature. It's a universal language; numbers belong to everyone.
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The Bowery Hotel is always a great place to meet people for drinks. It's so cozy in there, especially in the late fall and winter.
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I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life.
