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.

Betty Furness

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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.

  

  Vince Gill
  • People
  • Real
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Washington
  • Civility
  • Levelheaded

• When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Interesting
  • Reading
  • Language

• 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.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Team
  • Negative

• 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.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Man
  • Me
  • Feet

• You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Basketball

• 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.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Free
  • Political
  • Government

• I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

  

  Venus Williams
  • Like
  • Need
  • Dresses

• There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Jealousy

• Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Art
  • Judgment
  • Expertise

• 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

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Done
  • Paris
  • Canvas

• 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.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Life
  • Father
  • House

• I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Appreciated
  • I've Learned
  • Shells

• 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.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Believe
  • Wrong

• 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.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • World
  • Work
  • Men

• When they tried to draft me, I earned a college degree.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Education
  • College

• 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.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Want
  • Cool
  • Seems

• 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.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • I Think
  • Conditions

• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Together
  • Tree
  • Creation

• Soldiers join the military to serve their country, but when bullets are flying, it's hard to fight for an abstract notion like patriotism. They're fighting for the people standing next to them, and it doesn't matter who's a Republican or a Democrat, or who's black or white or Christian or Muslim or gay or straight. If Congress and all Americans could manage to ignore those differences, we would have a perfect country, but somehow we cannot rise to that level of nobility.

  

  Sebastian Junger
  • People
  • Country
  • Fighting

• We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.

  

  Renato Dulbecco
  • Society
  • Dangerous
  • Mankind

• 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.

  

  Betty Furness
  • Industry
  • Consumers
  • Sacrifices