Betty White Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I was the hallway clown in high school.
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I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
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I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Every day you wake up is an opportunity to go beyond, and that 's why I let my band go right now. For the first time in my life I'm just roaming around, vagabonding.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
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I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
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I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.
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We were hoping to initiate a conversation with them that would lead to an agreed-upon schedule.
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When you show up to speak publically, you have to show up to give. You always know the ones who do and the ones who don't.
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My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We're trying to give our kids a sense of what's going into their bodies, and it's also good for family time.
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I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.
