Bette Greene Quotes
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
Quotes to Explore
-
If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
-
Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
-
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.
-
I'm quite intuitive about what I pick. Often it's to do with what I've just done and how I'm feeling.
-
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.
-
I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
-
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.'
-
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.
-
I love doing voiceover work.
-
I take the harsh criticism along with the compliments.
-
There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.
-
I would like to think that in America, as time goes on, you gain freedom, not lose 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.
-
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.
-
I'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.
-
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?
-
Ambient awareness is the experience of knowing what's going on in the lives of other people - what they're thinking about, what they're doing, what they're looking at - by paying attention to the small stray status messages that people are putting online.
-
My dad and I used to do movie marathons when I was a kid at the Chinese Theatre, and I just remember thinking, 'One day I want to have a movie here' And then later on, when 'Save The Last Dance' premiered there, that was definitely a full circle moment.
-
You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.
-
Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
