Bette Greene Quotes
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
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My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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I have never felt out of place in my entire life. But I did at Yale.
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Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
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I've been a Democrat my whole life. That's what makes Maude and Dorothy so believable, we have the same viewpoints on how our country should be handled.
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I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
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But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1
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I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
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My father was the first person to introduce me to self-defense and martial arts, which I've been doing all my life now.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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I feel that the social revolution of the sixties is like a revolving door that came our way, and then left. It's back again.
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There are probably five songs in the world that I get excited about when I hear them on the radio.
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Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.