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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Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
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I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
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If you're a playwright, unless you're really lacking in get-up-and-go, you can always get your play up somewhere. You can't necessarily make a living doing it, but theater is about meeting an audience. Plays are not easier to write necessarily, they take less time to write. If you get them up, it's a much more rough-and-tumble kind of existence. I think it's, from my perspective, easier than novel writing.
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Low-wage jobs have gone offshore. We need to innovate to stay competitive.
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I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
