Bert Kalmar Quotes
You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
Quotes to Explore
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I'm so freaking competitive it's unbelievable.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I love the feeling that you get when you can really laugh with a man and be natural and not always think that there's a sexual element going on. For me, flirting with a man means making fun of myself and trying to open myself and be very unpretentious.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
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Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.
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But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore.
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With every decisions we make, the last question we ask is what does the consumer think of this.
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The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.
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You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
