Jayne Mansfield Quotes
No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
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I was in high school when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled India's flag in New Delhi.
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Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic.
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I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist because you've crushed anyone's desire to do the right thing with all these incentives.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
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Family are the people that can hurt you the most.
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I hope to have more than one main weapon. I have the Phenomenal Forearm as we're calling it now, the Calf Crusher - the Styles Clash is still available. I like to have a lot of alternative moves to hit people with, and whatever seems to work is what I'll go with.
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In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.
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Find out if your radio interviewer has read your book, or you are going to have to do that part of the job on air. It's okay if they haven't, but it's always better to be prepared for what's coming.
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If you don't know one thing about Kid Rock it's that he's loyal. His band has been together for a long time, he stands by his friends, and the guy still lives in his home state of Michigan.
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The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too near the center.
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With the acting, it's somebody else's brainchild, and I'm just sort of helping flesh it out. There's a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.
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There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
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I just want to go back to rockin', but I'm uncertain as to what to actually do … The truth is, I never stopped thinking about rock 'n' roll for a second that I'm on holiday.
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She Helen brought to Ilium her dowry, destruction.
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You need to be on your own so that you can meet people as you are, and as they are.
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It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep.
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If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.
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At the moment we have a ruling class that has one law and the people the other.
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[Louis Armstrong] could play a trumpet like nobody else, then put it down and sing a song like no one else could.
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No one wants to see or read about a dull subject. I don't consider myself a dull subject.
