Pearl Bailey Quotes
There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I kept hiding my smile in pictures throughout middle school and most of high school until picture day came my senior year.
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I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.
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We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
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My school friends thought I was outgoing and bubbly, but that masked a lot of insecurities, and maybe that's the reason I chose drama - to build a bit of self-confidence. I had a great teacher, and I won a few speech and drama competitions and just fell in love with it.
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If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
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The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.
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There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
