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.
Jack Germond -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I know actors who have had to turn down good roles because they just don't pay enough. It's hard.
Ian Mckellen -
One of my few shortcomings is that I can't predict the future.
Lars Ulrich Metallica
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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.
Nancy Kress -
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 -
I don't decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory.
Mahmoud Darwish -
To bend and prostrate oneself to express sentiments of respect, appears to be a natural motion.
Isaac D'Israeli -
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
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin -
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 -
What I think improv is great for is making dialogue more natural.
Chris O'Dowd -
The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.
Mason Cooley -
In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.
Benedict Wong
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I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.
Robert Frost -
The packaging of Led Zeppelin's IV doesn't have the name of the band, doesn't have the name of the album: It's got a guy on the cover with a load of sticks on his back. This record didn't quite get to No. 1 in the United States - it went to No. 2 - but stayed on the charts for years and years and years.
David Hepworth -
Casi no he tocado el barro y soy de barro.
Antonio Porchia -
Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith -
Titles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
I have the backbone of an eel.
Betty White