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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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
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People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.
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Most people really have no problem with the idea of a creator God. Their question is just what is this God like, how can I know about him, how can I know him.
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I knew I finally made it as a performer when I began hearing rumors that I was gay.
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My fans have always taken care of me.
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You know you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle!
