Bert Kalmar Quotes
You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
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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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It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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I've been in the bargain basement of the movie business.
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Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.
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We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be.
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The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.
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You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
