Dickey Betts Quotes
I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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I received my doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1910.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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Lets take away the incentives to do 'to' patients and instead create incentives to do 'for' patients, to be 'with' patients. We don't need to do comparative effectiveness trials to see if that works; we can just ask patients.
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I am an Indian, so I do yoga.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.
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Every time a new technology comes along, we feel we're about to break through to a place where we will not be able to recover. The advent of broadcast radio confused people. It delighted people, of course, but it also changed the world.
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It's (The Cult) always been me and Ian, and it always will be. We're a little wiser, but just as pissed off as we ever were.
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I've been watching 'The Cosby Show' and 'Roseanne' a lot right now, and those work so well because they're not, like, jokey comedies; they are coming from real characters. We want our show to be like that. A family show.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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The informality of family life is a blessed condition that allows us all to become our best while looking our worst.
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Eating well, being around the table with the family or friends or relatives - it doesn't get any better.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
