Betty Parsons Quotes
My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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The reasons kids get into trouble in one way or another is because - Who ever told them they were special?
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good as the feeling she had about church. She pushed open the door and went in. She liked the cmbined smell of worn leather bindings, library past and freshly inked stamping pads better than she liked the smell of burning incense at high mass.
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I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.
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The economic dependence of woman and her apparently indestructible illusion that marriage will release her from loneliness and work and worry are potent factors in immunizing her from common sense in dealing with men at work.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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We need to reach out - spend more time together.
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My husband wanted me to be a typical socialite. We never agreed on anything, so finally we decided it wasn't going to work.
