Phil Silvers Quotes
I had an unusual beginning in show business - I started at the top.
Phil Silvers
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On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
Oliver Goldsmith
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There was a time, actually, when I hadn't been singing, and I'd lost a lot of my ability. My range had shrunk.
Tamara Tunie
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I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.
Padgett Powell
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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
Samuel Johnson
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
Parker Harris
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
Orson Scott Card
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Let's go dance under the elms:Step lively, young lassies.Let's go dance under the elms:Gallants, take up your pipes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.
Taliesin
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My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
Patrick Henry
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Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
Kris Kristofferson
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I had an unusual beginning in show business - I started at the top.
Phil Silvers
