Gary Bettman Quotes

Having to respond to things that are made up or untrue tends to be a waste of time.

Gary Bettman

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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

Gail Sheehy
- People
- Up
- Women
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.

Caitriona Balfe
- Life
- Time
- Grief
When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.

Dan Harmon
- Up
- Family
- Business
Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.

Victoria Pendleton
- People
- Up
- Work
We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.

Carl Sagan
- Up
- World
- Powerful
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.

Laura Linney
- Life
- Time
- Fight