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Dickey Betts Quotes

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.

Dickey Betts

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: December 12, 1943

Topics

Today Organization You Person Out

I can't abide small talk.

Matt Roper

Small Talk Small Talk Abide

Barbies, nails, and fashion - I'll take everything in baby pink, please.

Jeffree Star

Baby Fashion Pink Nails Everything

I like to play unattractive people who think they're pretty. You can do what you want, but I prefer to look interesting.

Amy Sedaris

People Think Interesting You Look

As human beings, we're very materialistic and have all this stuff - furs and cars and diamonds and money.

Smokey Robinson

Money Diamonds Human Materialistic

I go for cosmopolitan cities, and I like to be in the middle of everything.

Michael Urie

Go Everything Middle Like Cities

I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

Josh Fox

Faith Succeed Energy Think Worry

I think everyone around me played a part in raising me; there isn't one individual I could pick out - it was more a case of it taking the whole village to raise the child.

Joseph Fiennes

Child Me Think Village More Out

Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.

Diana Krall

Character Story Sometimes Out Get

I grew up in London under Thatcher and that really was disgusting. A feeding frenzy.

Denise Mina

London Up Feeding Disgusting Really

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics.

Chris Rock

Funny Good Quality Woman Me Think

It is easier to rewrite anything - even the worst writing in the world - than it is to write something from scratch.

Antony Johnston

Writing World Worst Write Anything

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the very depths of poverty. And to be told, that we are now going to gamble it, on Wall Street, is nonsense!

Arthur Hertzberg

Revolution Reach Poverty Security