Ira Gershwin Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star Wars' convention people say: 'Do you want to come and sign some autographs?'
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Practices were tough.
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Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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Everyone learns from their experiences.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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Since she had had to lead this shut-in invalid life she had found illness involved suffering almost as much from the tyranny of painful thoughts as from physical pain.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
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Love is sweeping the country.
