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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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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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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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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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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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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I grew up in Michigan, in a very small town, Centreville. In my graduating class, I had like 92 people.
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I'm an anti-Platonist, so I wouldn't say that stock was a stock of ideas or certainly not an ideal form, because I don't believe there is something out there, except out there. There's something in here and there's something out there, and there's mediation between the two.
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When you're up against a trouble,Meet it squarely, face to face;Lift your chin and set your shoulders,Plant your feet and take a brace.When it's vain to try to dodge it,Do the best that you can do;You may fail, but you may conquer,See it through!
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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One (1748), as quoted by Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Chapter II: The Spirit of Capitalism, 1905. 12, 3
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Sometimes I might meet people, and they might just not like me, not want to get to know me. And that's OK. They're boring as hell anyway.
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There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.
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I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.
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I'm thankful for serendipitous moments in my life, where things could've gone the other way.
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Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.
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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.
