Ira Gershwin Quotes
They all laughed at Christopher ColumbusWhen he said the world was round;They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.
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Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is He who hath promised and who never lies.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
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For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.
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Harry Dresden: As a whole, people suck, but a person can be extraordinary.
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I learned at an early age that what we were doing in the choir was just as important as the preacher. It was a ministry in itself. We could stir the pot, you know?
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I wrote a draft of 'Playboy' for Warner Brothers, and it was impossible to really be independent of Hugh Hefner. In the end, Hugh Hefner was unable to take the back seat required to be able to write something about him that I felt I could do.
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I had thought everyone in the electronic world would be so laid back, but there's as many cliques and prejudices as any other world.
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They all laughed at Christopher ColumbusWhen he said the world was round;They all laughed when Edison recorded sound.
