Chita Rivera Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.
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She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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When someone is looking down, they're saying no. When they're looking up, they're looking to their brain for memory. When they look to the left, they're looking for a lie or something they memorized. When they look to the right, they're feeling sorry - they don't want to answer.
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The close relationship between railroad expansion and the genera development and prosperity of the country is nowhere brought more distinctly into relief than in connection with the construction of the Pacific railroads.
John Moody -
A man who correctly guesses a woman`s age may be smart, but he's not very bright.
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I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.
