Marvin Hamlisch Quotes
If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'
Quotes to Explore
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.
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I am a huge supporter for cash for caulkers - which allows people to make improvement for energy efficient in their homes. We should do the same for Americans purchasing appliances and computers and for that matter, new air-conditioner and heating units.
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In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
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Here's all I know about Dubai: It's one of those somewhere-over-there places where they make sand.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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I kind of think that if you show conspiracy theorists a photo of the dead Bin Laden they will come up with an explanation for why it's really a Photoshopped picture of Bin Laden asleep. Or his dead cousin Fred. Donald Trump apparently believes that Bin Laden is dead, so that ought to be enough for the Middle East.
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I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I've danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: 'Enough with the dancing.'
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I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.
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My idea of working out is going upstairs in my apartment.
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My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.
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You are my pride and joyAnd I just love you, little darlin'Like a baby boy loves his toyYou've got kisses sweeter than honeyAnd I work every day to give you all I knowAnd that's why you're my pride and joy.
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
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We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.
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Mrs. B. and two young women were of the same party, except when Mrs. B. thought herself obliged to leave them to run round the room after her drunken husband. His avoidance, and her pursuit, with the probable intoxication of both, was an amusing scene.
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The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of sophistical sciences which lead to an eternal quackery.
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Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.
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My candle burned alone in an immense valley. Beams of the huge night converged upon it, Until the wind blew. Then beams of the huge night Converged upon its image, Until the wind blew.
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We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!
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There is no fire without some smoke.
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I didn't realize this was a sad occasion. - Waiter at The Anxious Clown Restaurant
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If I'm within reach and can be helpful, I have a tendency to say 'Yes.' It's hard to say 'No.'
