Donald O'Connor Quotes

They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.

  

  Beck
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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
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• I have been in private law practice in New York City, where my husband and I are raising our children.

  

  Wendy E. Long
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

  

  Idris Elba
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• Julia Child wasn't afraid to have fun. She made fantastic food but knew how to have a good time and not be too stuck up about the kitchen space.

  

  Nadia Giosia
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• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
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• There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
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• There is no age better than another. The commitment to give of yourself and the knowledge that the time is right are what's important.

  

  Iman
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• This has been a trend for a long time; the days of lifetime employment are long since over.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
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• The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• I walked into an international economics tutorial, and the professor said, 'I don't know how to teach a woman.' I said, 'It's the same as teaching a man.' I just sat down, and he had no choice but to start teaching. When I handed in my first paper, I think that shut him up.

  

  Allison Schroeder
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• If you feel like snacking, stock up on almonds, walnuts and cranberries.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
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• Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• They put me in a harness, like a horse, to learn the back somersault. It was weird up there when I put on that harness for the first time. The courage came with practice.

  

  Donald O'Connor
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