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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The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your 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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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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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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My birthmark essentially looks like I have a black eye. It isn't that bad, so you can imagine if it has been this big a part of my life, think of what it must be like for children with more serious birthmarks that cover half their face.
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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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The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.
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Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
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When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
