Betty Comden Quotes
The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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Make sure that the people at the top are working together and there aren't divisions of labor. Don't have people working in silos; have them working across the team.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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I had seen images of Crystal Renn and Sophie Dahl growing up, but I didn't really know about the plus-size fashion industry or how lucrative it was or, like, that it was changing or that I was even invited.
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I am a businessman.
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
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I'm really scared of flying. Like, really, really, really scared.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.
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There's nothing worse than betraying yourself.
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There you go, Harry!” Ron shouted over the noise. “You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!
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To write a song and have it embraced by someone, even one person, I don't think that's something that everyone gets to experience.
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I'm getting closer...
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The song 'Some Other Time...' is full of emotion. In wartime, it had a tremendously poignant feeling.
