Betty Ford Quotes

Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Loss
  • Benefit
  • Sovereignty

• I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • People
  • Want
  • Perfect

• The box office has become global. I think that factors in to the question of how to portray different ethnicities and cultures.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • Different
  • Think
  • Question

• The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Work
  • Why

• Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • War
  • Generation
  • Own

• I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Better

• And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Home
  • Strong
  • Better

• I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Money
  • Free
  • Me

• The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.

  

  Harland Williams
  • Life
  • Problem
  • Lose

• I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Guy
  • Song
  • Know

• Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Society
  • Teacher
  • Humility

• I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Live
  • Man
  • Proud

• For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Better
  • Vanity
  • Slow

• I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Me
  • Player

• A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.

  

  Val McDermid
  • People
  • Reality
  • Take

• The odds of having films made which star women... Everyone still references one movie: 'Bridesmaids!'

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Women
  • Movie
  • Star

• I never wanted to be a movie star.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Never

• Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Logic

• The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • History
  • Political

• In the summer of 1965 I was invited to join Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and returned to academic life as professor with the added responsibility of becoming also Department Chairman.

  

  George Andrew Olah
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Summer

• When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Life
  • God
  • School

• Friends aren't any more important than breath or blood to a high school senior.

  

  Betty Ford
  • Important
  • School
  • Friends