Bette Lord Quotes
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.
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Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Why should Bollywood accept me? I should accept Bollywood. I don't care if Bollywood has accepted me. I don't seek acceptance. I don't need to live up to anybody's expectations.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I don't do rewrites. I put all the pages in a pile next to the typewriter.
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I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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I would love to go to film school.
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The best way we can encourage people to create companies that create jobs is to celebrate the diverse entrepreneurial stories and the variety of drivers that led these entrepreneurs to sticking their necks out.
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In the end, I do have a group of friends and teachers whose opinions I respect, and so I guess I just have to be content with their feedback.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I think we all need to believe in hope: that if we have dreams and if we have ambitions and if we have skills and talents - that if you really put your heart into something and you work at it hard enough - that you can make your dreams come true.
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To ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.
