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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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 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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I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures. Everything is better than some things and worse than others. Which you choose to compare your experiences and situation with determines whether you will be happy and grateful or sad and jealous.
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The United States doesn't do what it does in the world for altruistic reasons. Nobody set out to be the world's government.
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The best advice I get is actually from my family and friends. That has been a huge resource I've come to rely on.
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We call our rich relatives the kin we love to touch.
