Dickey Betts Quotes

People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.

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• It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Future
  • Political
  • Moral

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • Abuse
  • Critics

• War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Real
  • War
  • Political

• Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Nature
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• Religion has caused more harm than any other idea since the beginning of time. There's nothing good I can say about it. People use it as a crutch.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.

  

  Ferid Murad
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Education

• Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Men
  • Society
  • Philosophy

• Few things are as essential as education.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Education
  • Things
  • Few

• If you're writing a thriller, mystery, Western or adventure-driven book, you'd better keep things moving rapidly for the reader. Quick pacing is vital in certain genres. It hooks readers, creates tension, deepens the drama, and speeds things along.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Moving

• People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.

  

  Sam Smith
  • People
  • Everyone
  • Belt

• I will run against anybody.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Will
  • Run
  • Against

• I've been a kind of a wildcatter. I've been able to say anything I wanted.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Kind
  • Say
  • Anything

• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Mind
  • Movie
  • Reading

• For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Just
  • Retirement

• Make yourself necessary to somebody.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Yourself
  • Make
  • Somebody

• Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring prosperity and jobs, ownership and equality of opportunity to all Americans, especially those living in our nation's pockets of poverty.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Opportunity
  • Poverty
  • Goals

• I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.

  

  Peter Billingsley

• Every time you choose a perfume, you are voting. And, of course, I hope you vote for me. Not only for my ego, but for my pocketbook. The more you buy, the more money I make.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Time
  • Money
  • Hope

• I feel like, as an artist and a songwriter, I have to reach certain audiences and give people a little bit of everything.

  

  Anthony Santos Aventura
  • People

• I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Work
  • Business
  • Success

• Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Time
  • Business
  • Energy

• People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.

  

  Dickey Betts
  • Business
  • Moment
  • Entertainment