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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It's a completely different thing, but there's so many things I learned from being an athlete that helped me in business. The only risk is not taking the risk. You've got to take that step.
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The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.
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Humility is something we should constantly pray for, yet never thank God that we have.
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Many young artists, they look at the art world and think they can make a lot of money.
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One of my earliest memories is of bashing the keyboard with my hands, my chubby little baby hands, and I remember the sound hitting my face. It became my toy.
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What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.
