Betty White Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
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One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
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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.
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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.
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I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
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It's always overwhelming when you come to another country and you're embraced in such a positive way.
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To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
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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.'
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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.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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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.
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It's always imperative to improve and to remain dynamic - or you'll become lunch, as opposed to serving it.
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Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.
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I have done so much for hip-hop and 'til this day, I haven't received any awards or any recognition for it.
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If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.
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I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
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I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.
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Are there no more worlds that I might conquer?
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I have the backbone of an eel.
