Ira Gershwin Quotes
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Oscar Wilde -
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?'
Ralph Brown -
I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Paddy Ashdown -
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.
J. D. Salinger -
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.
Aaron Neville -
Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.
Harold Pinter
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel -
Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
G. Stanley Hall -
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.
Nathan Deal -
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.
Vincent Bugliosi -
Everyone learns from their experiences.
Dana Perino -
I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
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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.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
L. J. Smith -
To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I owe it all to Jesus.
Aaron Neville
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It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not It just means that you're in sync with yourself. And whatever your goal is, in terms of hearing a melody or a lyric, the closer you get to it, the faster it comes out and the easier it is to "spit it out", as it were.
Nilsson -
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
Sarah Jessica Parker -
When I wear high heels I have a great vocabulary and I speak in paragraphs. I'm more eloquent. I plan to wear them more often.
Meg Ryan -
I'm a visual thinker, so I think of everything visually, first. A lot of what an issue will become for me starts with me thinking, "What's a great cover?," or "What's the splash image?," or "What is the title of the issue? How do I see the text?" I think about all of that stuff, and then the story comes out of that imagery.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
Venus Williams -
Love is sweeping the country.
Ira Gershwin