Betty White Quotes

I have the backbone of an eel.

Betty White

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• I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Different
  • She
  • Beautiful

• Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Remember

• I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reborn
  • Sanctuary

• I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Good
  • Know
  • Down

• One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Future
  • Predict
  • Few

• There are writers whose first drafts are so lean, so skimpy, that they must go back and add words, sentences, paragraphs to make their fiction intelligible or interesting. I don't know any of these writers.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Words
  • Interesting
  • Know

• Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Country
  • Free
  • Rich

• I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Myself
  • Memory
  • Self

• It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Country
  • Always
  • Positive

• To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Respect

• Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. … Whenever the Westerner hears the word 'psychological,' it always sounds to him like 'only psychological.'

  

  Carl Jung

• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Cold

• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.

  

  Benjamin Franklin
  • Good
  • Ambition

• The U.S. government knew that China wanted to acquire sensitive U.S. technology, and instead of implementing a policy to prevent them from acquiring the information, the government all but gave them an invitation to take our equipment and designs.

  

  Charles Bass
  • Technology

• It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.

  

  Danny Meyer

• Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

  

  Billy Crystal

• My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

  

  Doug Flutie
  • Live
  • Song
  • Band

• None of us has the right to assess the value of a human existence. All must be held valuable, or none. The death of Christ and the death of Socrates," Fen added dryly, "suggest that our judgements are scarcely infallible...And the evil of Nazism lay precisely in this, that a group of men began to differentiate between the value of their fellow-beings, and to act on their conclusions. It isn't a habit which I, for one, would like to encourage.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Conclusions
  • Socrates
  • Human Existence

• I want to be the most melodic artist. 'His music ability, the way he write, his creativity is undeniable.' I want people to say that about me.

  

  Future
  • People
  • Music
  • Creativity

• Texas is a country in its own. It's made up of half Mexico/half United States but completed mixed. I don't mean to draw a generalization but it is a place, a territory, that's really made up of all these encounters, you know?

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Country
  • Know

• I have the backbone of an eel.

  

  Betty White