Eddie Cantor Quotes
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
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I go home, and I'm a blob. I just lay there and don't do anything - lay by the pool with the other husbands while the wives work. It's fantastic. It's really good. That's kind of our life at home.
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A little recognition is not a bad thing because it means people appreciate your work. The only problem is when you can't walk down the street or have a meal without people looking at you. I want to be the one looking at people.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.
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At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily than Germans did, really.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We don't ask God for too much; in fact, we ask for too little. Turn to Him for everything. Give everything to God.
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Her imagination is rich and vibrant. I have a great love and respect for Rita.
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My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.
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Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
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When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
