Bette Greene Quotes
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
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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.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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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.
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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.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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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.
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I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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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.'
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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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.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
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There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
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I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose freedom.
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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.
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I wanted to be a scientist. My undergraduate degree is in biology, and I really did think I might go off and be some kind of a lady Darwin someplace. It turned out that I'm really awful at science and that I have no gift for actually doing science myself. But I'm very interested in others who practice science and in the stories of science.
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We're going to have another rude awakening, a war or depression where people are going to have to value one another again and not value money and winning alone. On the political environment we now have a President who likes winning and money and he represents aspects of the spectacle we were alluding to, and yet he's my President and I am for anyone who is my President. I'm an American and yet it's the style thing. We’ll see what happens. He’d like to see things work well and trying to get us to that place as a country.
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I believe our entire nation is in the midst of a collective coming-of-age crisis without parallel in our history. We are living in an America of perpetual adolescence. Our kids simply don't know what an adult is anymore - or how to become one. Many don't even see a reason to try. Perhaps more problematic, the older generations have forgotten that we need to plan to teach them. It's our fault more than it is theirs.
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That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile.
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I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.
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Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
