Betty White Quotes

I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.

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• At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Music
  • Home
  • Attitude

• I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Right
  • See
  • Throw

• I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • World
  • Family
  • Love

• Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Up
  • Kitchen
  • Chocolate

• I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

  

  Larry David
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Kid

• Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Makeup
  • Bed
  • Teeth

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Day
  • Courage

• New York is a much more bourgeois city, more of a tourist attraction than a muscular metropolis. It's lost moxie and a rough energy, while gaining grace and friendliness. I love both versions of the city, but I wish the prosperous Manhattan would become a little easier for young people to afford.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Energy
  • City
  • Young

• I spend a lot of time on my music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Spend

• What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• It's interesting to try to imagine how early humans discovered what was edible and what wasn't. Who figured out that when you cooked stinging nettles, the sting would go away completely? How many people had to die before the relative toxicity of wild mushrooms became widely known?

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Die

• As an actor, you arrive most of the time at the last minute. You arrive at the end of the process, but you don't realize it.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • Time
  • End
  • Process

• I knew I was coming home, I thought they would consider acquittal, I was disappointed that they didn't.

  

  Louise Woodward
  • Home

• It is the asymmetry of the bonus system that got us here. No incentives without disincentives: capitalism is about rewards and punishments, not just rewards.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Eyes
  • Tears

• If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Teacher

• It's been a process of evolving within a family company to get the autonomy I now have from a boss like my father. If you're sitting there waiting for a pat on the back, you're going to be waiting a long time.

  

  Donald Trump, Jr.
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.

  

  Betty White
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Father