Oscar Levant Quotes
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.
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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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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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Some people seem to sort of have a gut for hiring. I literally had a gut that was exactly the opposite. So whenever I thought someone would be great, it was sort of the opposite.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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There is so much good music in the U.S. and there is just a small section that gets recognised at the Grammys.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.
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There would be plenty of justification to raise revenues in order to subsidize businesses that employ low-wage workers. But there can be no justification for pandering to the economy's entire bottom half merely to attract its votes.
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Politics is social work with power.
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Frankly speaking, we all know that provoking military and political instability, regional, and other conflicts is a helpful means of distracting the public from growing domestic social and economic problems in certain countries. Such attempts cannot be ruled out, unfortunately.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
