Betty White Quotes

I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

Betty White

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• The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • World
  • True

• When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'

  

  T-Pain
  • Song
  • Say
  • Finish

• The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Beautiful
  • Unity
  • Essence

• The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
  • Never
  • Goal

• Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.

  

  Laura Robson
  • Better
  • Playing
  • Getting

• Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.

  

  Paolo Gentiloni
  • People
  • May
  • Military

• This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.

  

  Yasmine Bleeth
  • Time
  • Fantasy
  • Watching

• Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Dad
  • Being
  • Choice

• But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Than

• I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Therapy
  • Figure
  • Contemplating

• I love Ben Affleck so much. He's an amazing director.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Director

• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• Humor is an antidote to all ills.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Humor
  • Antidote
  • Ills

• In the end, crime doesn't pay.

  

  Lane Garrison
  • End
  • Crime
  • In The End

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

  

  Matt Holliday
  • Great
  • Job
  • Parents

• The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Peace
  • Failure

• I think people, especially the press, like to pick on children of famous people and I think that's fucking awful. Things get made up. It's so, so sad. And there's absolutely nothing you can do about it as a 16-year-old. You're like, Why? What did I do?

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• I'm so compulsive about stuff, I know if I had ever gotten pregnant, of course, that would have been my whole focus. But I didn't choose to have children because I'm focused on my career. And I just don't think, as compulsive as I am, that I could manage both.

  

  Betty White
  • Children
  • Career
  • Focus