Betty Wright famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct.
-- Betty Wright

#Tired #Thinking #People
My first love is my mother. She did so much for us as children as a single parent. I watched her make a dollar out of fifteen cents. I thought she was either a magician or she had God's actual phone number. She wasn't a motivational speaker; she was an inspirational speaker.
-- Betty Wright

#Mother #Children #First Love
One thing you can't do to a fan is change their heart about somebody.
-- Betty Wright

#Heart #Fans #One Thing
You gotta' sell a million records before you talk about getting paid at a major [label].
-- Betty Wright

#Labels #Records #Paid
I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.
-- Betty Wright

#Sometimes #Young #Shows

[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.
Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.
When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.
I am like the she-wolf / I broke with the pack / I fled to the mountains / Growing tired of the flatlands.
Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. I'm trying not to think about you, can't you just let me be? So long, my luckless romance, my back is turned on you. Should've known you'd bring me heartache. Almost lovers always do.
Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Betty Wright famous quotes

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