Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien (Dusty Springfield) Quotes
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology.
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I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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God does arithmetic.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
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Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
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I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend.
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It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.
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I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
