Betty Parsons Quotes
There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.Betty Parsons
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Like a cyclone, imperialism spins across the globe; militarism crushes peoples and sucks their blood like a vampire.
Karl Liebknecht -
'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
Zachary Knighton -
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
Ralph Waite -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner -
Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
Nate Parker -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik -
You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
Callie Khouri -
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
T-Pain -
I like movies where you feel like it was actually thought through.
Damien Chazelle -
I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
Rachel Dratch -
The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
Tammy Baldwin
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I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you have to acknowledge that there's a huge fan base for it, and these people are really sweet. You can't stereotype a 'Star Wars' fan.
Ralph Brown -
I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
Vicky McClure -
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius -
As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.
Lance Henriksen -
Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
T. S. Eliot -
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
Ralph Marston
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I don't think I've been shy in the past. Young and uncomfortable, maybe. But shy? It has become this annoying term that I've been lumbered with.
Kelly Macdonald -
Now, when I came on to Washington to begin my job, I was so interested in photography at that time that I really would have preferred to work with Stryker than with my department, which was more artistic if you wish.
Ben Shahn -
You do ill if you praise, and still worse if you reprove in a matter you do not understand.
Leonardo da Vinci -
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass -
It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.
Jennifer Armintrout -
There are three things we have no control over: our birth; our emotions, if we're sincere; and our death.
Betty Parsons