Betty MacDonald Quotes
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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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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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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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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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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I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
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From childhood I have been afraid of mummers. It always seemed an extra shadow without face or name had slipped among them...
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Whenever Elvin Jones comes to Seattle I try to go catch him.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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I grew up in the '50s, in New York City, where television was born. There were 90 live shows every week, and they used a lot of kids. There were schools just for these kids. There was a whole world that doesn't exist anymore.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
