Betty MacDonald Quotes
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.
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That thing, 'You must stay together for the kids', is out of fashion but is right. It's not arguing parents that children don't like, it is having one parent.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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Any Southerner is spoiled when it comes to food.
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We want to pull out songs from the American song book, and we want to make them palatable for a modern audience.
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I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
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Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
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The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.
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Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
