Dickey Betts Quotes
I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.
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I don't think we'd be the business that we are today if we were spread out in the suburban areas.
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I'm not gonna play a part that doesn't instill some kind of fear in me. If I read a part, and suddenly, I'm thinking halfway through, 'I'm not sure I could get away with this,' I think of everything I can think of to keep me from doing it, that's the one I should do.
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I am all for controlling guns.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I got an internship with the casting director of The Girl Next Door. I would hold the clipboard and help them in their casting sessions and get them lunch.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
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Our responsibility is to determine whether the nominee is fit for the position ... and whether the nominee, in our judgment, will serve in the national interest, ... Dr. Condoleezza Rice meets that standard at least and much more.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.
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When designing a kitchen, always keep in mind the social aspect.
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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
