Betty Furness Quotes
If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.
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The real amazing thing about all of this is I think I've maintained the mentality of a musician throughout it all, which I'm proudest of. And I'm still playing on people's records and singing on people's records.
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I am a pretty level-headed person, but that person, Harry Reid, has been the most destructive entity in Washington when it comes to civility. By far.
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The glass is always half full: I have no time for anything negative - and actually, I've bought crystals for all my team, so they all carry crystals as well.
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My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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It is impossible to objectively define how free a market is. This is a political definition. Government is always involved, and those free marketers are as politically motivated as anyone.
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I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
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There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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Almost every evening in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. a remark of Picasso to Françoise Gilot, December 1908
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I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
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I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.
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Obviously people don't want other people to tell them how to think or what to believe, or to tell them what's right politically and what's wrong.
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Women have to work much harder to make it in this world. It really pisses me off that women don't get the same opportunities as men do, or money for that matter. Because lets face it, money gives men the power to run the show. It gives men the power to define our values and to define what's sexy and what's feminine and that's bullshit. At the end of the day, it's not about equal rights, it's about how we think. We have to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves.
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When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.
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I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.
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I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to bear on the conditions of the world.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I want to give meaning to the history of the past, but to do it in real time, as if it were lived. This gives a special touch to my films, because you feel that I didn't have one single idea of the concrete meaning of what I wanted to say or what you have to feel or what you have to think. For me, this is the beauty, to see the past being born in front of you.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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If consumers are asked to make greater sacrifices than industry, this country is going to have its greatest shortage of all -- a shortage of consumers.
