Betty White Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.
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I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Statistics are just a compilation of people's stories put on paper, and legislation is our attempt to address those real challenges for people.
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It sure looks like [Vladimir] Putin did this [hack DNS site]. And we all need to take this seriously.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking under the early evening sky. She was weary of being outdoors, but she was not ready to go in. Was that really all there was in life, indoors or out? Wasn't there somewhere else for people to go?
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Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.
