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
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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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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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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'm on a billboard in Times Square, but my bathroom is still dirty, and I have toothpaste on my face.
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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?
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Around Clifden, I like the place, and the people are great.
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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.
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Basketball was always my game.
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To its credit, hip-hop is my favorite genre, to this day, and it's hard not to be influenced by the culture and by the movement of it and by the soul of it.
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There is a vast difference between living according to one's idea of what it is to be good, and actually being that way.
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We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.
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Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?
