Ira Gershwin Quotes
It ain't necessarily so,It ain't necessarily so.De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I hate the word sexy.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Remember though thatTHERE IS NO GENERAL RULE FOR CONVERTING A LIST INTO A SCALAR.
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.
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Who but a stupid barbarian could burn so much beauty in his stove and destroy that which he cannot make?
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The relation of feeling toward art and its bringing-forth can be one of production or one of reception and enjoyment.
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As every faith teaches us -- and as presidents from Lincoln to Roosevelt to Reagan to Clinton have reminded us -- we must as Americans, try to see our nation not just through our own eyes, but through the eyes of others.
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I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
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In the Bible it says God has made everything good for man to eat and to wear their skins. Whenever we eat beef, we eat chicken, we have to kill to eat. But at the same time, hunting is a sport. I think it is a great sport... I would say most hunters are Christian men.
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It ain't necessarily so,It ain't necessarily so.De t'ings dat yo' li'bleTo read in de Bible,It ain't necessarily so.
