Bette Greene Quotes
Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
Quotes to Explore
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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Since 1987, when I got my first one, I've been wearing a clock around my neck 24/7. You feel me? 24/7.
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I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.
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While cheap products are exported to western countries, the waste is dumped mostly in China's back yard, contaminating its air, water, soil and seas.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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As actors, you play people who are not yourselves!
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I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.
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Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.
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Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
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The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.
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My retail partners, they are my brand ambassadors. They're the ones who are selling the shoes to women.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage...
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Alexander North Whitehead is supposed to have said of Bertrand Russell: 'Bertie thinks me muddleheaded and I think Bertie simple-minded.'
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The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.
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The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.
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I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.
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Before I take my last breath, before my last flower withers, I wish to live, I wish to make love, I wish to be in this world close to those who need me, those who I need, in order to learn, comprehend and rediscover that I can be and I want to be better at every moment.
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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My wish is to bring my heroes to the big screen, and many of them have already appeared in my films.
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Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.
