Bette Ford Quotes

I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

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• When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Rock

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • World
  • Men
  • Education

• My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

  

  Samuel Hoffenstein
  • Soul
  • Dark
  • Diet

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Different
  • You
  • Know

• When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Work
  • Different

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Women
  • Respect

• The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Why
  • Guy
  • Respect

• I'll watch anything, from action to art films.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Art
  • Action
  • Watch

• It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws, but to break up both and make new ones.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Quality
  • Old

• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Military
  • Transformation

• If we judge by wealth and power, our times are the best of times; if the times have made us willing to judge by wealth and power, they are the worst of times.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Power
  • Judge

• If you don't save something on your current income, you won't save anything on your future income.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Future

• We have to always look ahead enough moves to be well prepared, even for victory!

  Garry Kasparov
  • Victory

• The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Sun

• Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Competition
  • Advantage
  • Boast

• For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Women
  • Church
  • Evil

• Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.

  

  Astra Taylor
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Creative

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Die
  • Pleasure
  • Bull