Pearl Bailey Quotes
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
Quotes to Explore
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
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To my mind, there is no doubt that this Gandhi age is the dark age of India. It is an age in which people, instead of looking for their ideals in the future, are returning to antiquity.
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Real golf is the 20 million people who play once a week or once a month.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.
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I pick up on other people's discomfort.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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People who vote against this today are voting against me and I will not forget.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.
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Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
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I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved?
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Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.
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The people who present themselves as normal and nice and good are often the scariest monsters in the world.
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Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.
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I think it is very hard to design in colours you don't feel right about.
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The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals.
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Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
