Fred Astaire Quotes
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
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Broadway is really my life.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I just think that - when a country needs more income and we do, we're only taking in 15 percent of GDP, I mean, that - that - when a country needs more income, they should get it from the people that have it.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker places to shine a light on that experience and come out with a story that validates the human spirit.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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There is no person that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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But the worst of all is, according to the old phrase, while the grass grows, the horse starves, but the man of money is the man for Nova Scotia. Those may do extremely well.
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I would love to work more - I really would - but there is not a lot of stuff around and the stuff that is around is not very complicated; it tends to lie a little flat.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.
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It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
