Bert Lahr Quotes
After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
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I just love playing so much, competing so much. You're able to put your losses behind you. One of the greatest attributes a decathlete can have is the ability to forget... to look ahead, not behind.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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It all started when I was 4. I was watching a lot of 'The Little Mermaid,' and I loved that movie. I was going around the house singing - I wanted to be on Disney and everything; I wanted to be a princess.
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Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
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I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.
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In school, I had a tough time fitting in, and dancing was my way of being in my own element. As a teenager, I became a bit disillusioned with it. Even with competitions, I'd win, but still there would be tears.
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It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.
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There seems little doubt in my mind that depression, in particular at the severe end of the experience of this condition, is as real a disorder as diabetes is at the severe end of blood glucose levels.
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Libraries are the backbone of our education system.
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We clearly realize that freedom's inner kingdom cannot be touched by exterior attacks.
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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.
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Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
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The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
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You've got to coach worrying about your entire team: whether that gets you a championship or whether that gets you fired. I think it allows you to coach free. You're coaching with freedom because you know you're doing what you think is right.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
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To put it another way, Michael Jordan was a gym rat.
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Spiritual matters should be private.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
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Natasha Lyonne is fantastic on Twitter. She posts hilarious pictures. I don't even know where she finds some of them; it'll be like a random picture of a chinchilla kissing a lion or Bill Murray and Jim Belushi out on a boat or something.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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After The Wizard Of Oz I was typecast as a lion, and there aren't all that many parts for lions.
