Betty White Quotes

It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback. I haven't been away, guys. I've been working steadily for the last 63 years.

Betty White

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MeComebackYearsBigLastWorking

Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.

Jessye Norman

EducationLoveCommunityTimeEnjoy

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Melissa Etheridge

LifeMy LifeSometimesMoreInspired

It's just like - you know, you read the New Testament and you read about all the things, and you think, 'Oh, that's not going on in our community.' Oh yes it is.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

CommunityThinkYouNewKnowGoing

It's never a good thing to see a government agency talk in secret about the need to 'control protestors' - especially when that agency is charged with protecting the homeland against terrorists, not nonviolent demonstrators exercising their First Amendment rights to peaceable dissent.

Michael Hastings

GoodGovernmentControlTalkNever

Most Billy Joel songs make me want to cry a little.

Torrey DeVitto

MeCryWantLittleSongsMost

There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement.

Ron Chernow

FearBabyRetirementGenerationKind

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Mohamed ElBaradei

CoffeeDemocracyInstant

Film is pop art. It's not whether it's auteur cinema or not; that's a false distinction. Cinema is cinema.

Denis Villeneuve

ArtCinemaFalseFilmPopPop Art

I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.

Debra Winger

BestMeThinkFeelPushGoing

I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

Christopher Walken

BusinessAgePersonalityNew York

There are a lot of good things that we can do. Maybe my example can help someone.

Cheryl James

GoodGood ThingsSomeoneHelpThings

What's the point of a song if you can't be honest?

Ashley Monroe

SongYouPointHonest

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