Dickey Betts Quotes
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I think that a leader is someone that needs to make an impact on, off the cricket field and in their lives as well.
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Regional clustering of specific cancer types triggered some investigations on a potential role of infectious agents in these malignant proliferations.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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A secret is powerful when it is empty.
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
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Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
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Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
