Betty Hill Quotes

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

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• You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Business
  • You
  • Always

• If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Like
  • Surprise
  • Behave

• We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Home
  • Future
  • Space

• You get a lot of speeding tickets, and you say, 'I'm so unlucky!' No, you're not. You're speeding. Slow down.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • You
  • Down
  • Slow

• When team members openly and passionately share their opinions about a decision, they don't wonder whether anyone is holding back. Then, when the leader has to step in and make a decision because there is no easy consensus, team members will accept that decision because they know that their ideas were heard and considered.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Team
  • Decision
  • Wonder

• Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Beautiful
  • Science
  • Humanity

• If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Movie
  • Point
  • Direct

• I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.

  

  Taran Killam
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Care
  • Connection
  • Hollywood

• If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

  

  Cardinal Richelieu
  • Men
  • Me
  • Hand

• Being a musician, people ask you a lot about what musicians inspire you, and there's plenty of musicians that I love and respect, but I think that I'm the most inspired by cinema.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Respect
  • Inspired

• Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.

  

  Walter Lord
  • Me
  • Courage
  • Intellectual

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• Good is not good when better is expected.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Good
  • Better
  • Expected

• The only way I was going to come back to the Disney Channel was if I was in a position of more power.

  

  Zendaya
  • Power
  • Way
  • Back

• The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Law
  • Question
  • Day

• Everybody is xenophobic to an extent.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Everybody
  • Extent

• It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Ordinary citizens are so accepting of what is going on, grumbling when their material interests were affected, but seemingly accepting the spiritual poverty so characteristic of today.

  

  Charles Handy
  • Today
  • Spiritual
  • Poverty

• We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

  

  Charles E. Schaefer
  • Fun
  • Play
  • Alive

• To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'

  

  John Sayles
  • Good
  • Work
  • Character

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Religion

• When you talk about locker room betting, we bet on everything... It's no different than anyone else's office pool. Money changes hands in the locker room; it's whatever you want.

  

  Albert Belle
  • Money
  • Want
  • Locker Room

• When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

  

  Betty Hill