Bette Greene Quotes
Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Yes, I did and a lot of my friends who are in the same program as I were very much supportive, and the most important thing they said to me is do not let this interfere with what you have to do in taking car of yourself. That was the most important thing.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
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What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
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You go out into the world, you read everything you can read, you imitate the things you love, and you learn how hard it is to do. Eventually, you learn your own vision of the world, you learn your own voice and how to hear it, and you learn to write your own work. Writers today have as many opportunities as my generation did, but they don't see the examples as clearly as we did.
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I've learned that 'love' is used a lot in the States for everything: 'I love that burger,' 'I love my shoes,' 'I love a friend.' To me, if it's overused, it loses meaning.
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I kind of put myself out there as is. I'm a quiet person. I don't know if that's surprising. I'm a Pilates junkie.
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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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Criticism is okay, encouragement is better!
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Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.
