Dickey Betts Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.
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Nuclear arms and atomic power represent a technology in which coexistence with man is extremely difficult.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
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Due process policies such as tenure are put in place to protect good teachers from being fired without cause. They aren't there to protect 'bad' teachers.
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Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
