Betty Ford Quotes

My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

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• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Time
  • Different
  • High

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Time
  • Same
  • Evolution

• Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Relationship
  • Years
  • Google

• And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Long
  • Memories
  • Walking

• The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Change
  • Oil
  • Climate Change

• Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Possible
  • Hold
  • Grip

• A war between Europeans is a civil war.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • War
  • Between
  • Civil War

• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  

  Warren Moon
  • Time
  • Different
  • Football

• I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • She
  • Day
  • Before

• You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • You
  • Know
  • Promises

• To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • People
  • Up
  • Opportunity

• I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
  • Star
  • Enjoy

• Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World
  • God
  • War

• I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Happy
  • Doubt
  • Thought

• God only, who made us rich, can make us poor.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • God

• Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup... you're young, you don't need that much.

  

  Sara Paxton
  • Girl
  • Makeup

• If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Freedom
  • Makeup
  • Characters

• Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Famous

• Treat a boy like a fool and he'll act like a fool, I say, but there's some folks need convincing.

  

  Stephen Vincent Benet
  • Act
  • Treat
  • Convincing

• My makeup wasn't smeared, I wasn't disheveled, I behaved politely, and I never finished off a bottle, so how could I be alcoholic?

  

  Betty Ford
  • Makeup