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Betsy Hodges Quotes

Too often when we talk about racial or economic justice, we white people do not see ourselves in the picture. We feel like it's all well and good for other people to do better, but not at our expense, and it won't benefit us.

Betsy Hodges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1969

Topics

Good Justice People Better Picture

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Jim Hodges

Light Things Works Latest

After my bar mitzvah, I started to assimilate, to really not pay attention to my roots. The anti-Semitic experiences of my youth had been very painful. You try to put all that in the past and become a person of the world. I think that's the right thing to do. But it's not right to leave out who you really are. That's a tragedy.

Joel Grey

Past Youth Roots World Think You

Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation.

Robert Schumann

Nature God Best Joy Tears Name

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

John Hodgman

Truth I Am Someone Values Who Am

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people all around him.

Robert M. Pirsig

People Me Ideas More Him Out

My third hire when I came to Spotify was Tiffany Kumar, who came on as our global head of songwriter relations. The whole idea was to put our heads together and figure out how to build and contribute within the songwriting community.

Troy Carter

Community Together Build Songwriting

The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself.

Roger Penrose

You Way Try Never Two Colour

If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Yourself People You Want Will Need

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which is worse, this habit, or keeping one's self so absorbed intellectually as to forget the sufferings and cares of others, to lose sympathy through having too much to think about?

Lucy Larcom

Love Habit Sympathy Curiosity Think

I don't think what size I am really matters.

Jose Altuve

I Am Think Matters Size Really Am

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

Derek Hough

Love Production Big Shows Putting

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

Dorothy Allison

Truth Meaning Fiction Lies Piece