Bette Greene Quotes

Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

Bette Greene

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• If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

  

  Karen Black
  • Believe
  • America
  • Sorry

• Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • God
  • Money
  • Like

• It was very hard for me to practice and enjoy my tennis, and I didn't know the why, so I worked with psychologists to try and see what was happening. They pushed me really hard.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Why
  • Me
  • Practice

• Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

  

  Carl D. Anderson
  • Problem
  • Information

• It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.

  

  Halldor Laxness
  • Simple
  • Always
  • Matter

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Done
  • Feeling
  • Often

• I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Universe

• I love doing voiceover work.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Work
  • Doing
  • Voiceover

• I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Criticism

• There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Fall

• I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • America
  • Freedom

• I'm a pretty normal person outside of the film world. It doesn't really affect me when I'm at school or with my mates.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • World
  • School
  • Pretty

• I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.

  

  Betty Gilpin
  • Dirty

• I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books?

  

  Lisa Jackson
  • People
  • Hate
  • Independent

• Around Clifden, I like the place, and the people are great.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • People
  • Great

• Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

  

  Leo Kottke
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Career

• Ironically, it is the talented who have high aspirations, which are possible but exceedingly difficult to realize, who are especially vulnerable to self-dissatisfaction despite notable achievements.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • High
  • Achievements
  • Aspiration

• Stand up for what you believe. Follow your gut, which most of the time is your heart talking. This has been my hardest lesson. I have given this advice and not always followed it myself. The truth is, there is no other way.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

  

  Joseph Heller
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Singing

• Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • House
  • Credit
  • Key

• Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Knowledge
  • Action

• Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?

  

  Bette Greene
  • Believe
  • Thinking