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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I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, how I'm feeling.
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I regret that I do not have the dignity of Ricardo Montalban, the class of Dean Martin, or the humor of Bill Cosby. I do have the heart of a lion.
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I'm a frightened little cat that learned to act like a lion.
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The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many.
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Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.
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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.
