Vicki Baum Quotes
What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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The West was involved in toppling the Mossadegh government. That ultimately led to the Iranian revolution.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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I think we just need to stick to our knitting on the topics and the subjects the American people care about.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.
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One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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Abe Krok was a man of integrity who made a unique contribution to Mamelodi Sundowns and to South African football.
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I'm so associated with being young and being with a teenager.
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Dutch prisons are probably the most civilized you're going to find anywhere in the world.
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I have no idea why one of our most original filmmakers would want to spend two years of his life translating someone else's movie from Spanish into English. And it wasn't such a good film in Spanish, either.
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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.
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English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.
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What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
