Polly Bergen Quotes

When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

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• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• For centuries, building materials were free. You want to build a house, you cut down some trees. But we haven't been thinking about the cost to the planet.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Free

• I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Talent
  • Ambitious
  • Monstrosity

• I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Book
  • Help
  • You

• Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Children
  • Culture

• The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • Think
  • Politics

• He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Brain
  • Win
  • Threat

• I genuinely miss writing now on the rare days I don't write; my mouth waters when I think about writing, and I have an extreme physical reaction to the idea of doing it.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Doing

• During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Job
  • Remember
  • Conversation

• New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Yourself
  • New York
  • Vacation

• I think everyone dreams of that nice romantic wedding.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Nice
  • Dreams
  • Romantic

• If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Lying
  • Say

• We have always adapted ourselves to the songs instead of vice versa.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Always
  • Songs
  • Vice

• Hugh, I know I shouldn't even be asking you this, but what we really need in order to go in and take out Saddam is a precipitous event-something that would make us look good in the eyes of the world.  Could you have one of our U-2s fly low enough-and slow enough-so as to guarantee that Saddam could shoot it down?

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • World
  • Good
  • Eyes

• Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

  

  E. B. White
  • Together

• Everybody, yeah. Rock your body, yeah.Everybody, yeah, rock your body right.Backstreet's back, alright!

  

  Backstreet Boys
  • Rock

• I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Success
  • Health
  • Goals

• ‘Then I guess we have no choice but to go forward. When have we ever had any choice but to go forward?’

  

  Christopher Paolini

• We didn't put in ^^ because then we'd have to keep telling people what it means, and then we'd have to keep telling them why it doesn't short circuit.  :-/

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Why

• Cancer is manageable. That if you deprive cancer of what it wants, by proper nutrition, avoiding toxins, avoiding chemicals and pharmaceuticals, sleeping well, eliminating stress, and balancing hormones with natural bioidentical hormones, you have a real shot at keeping your cancer at bay. In this way, you are managing your cancer.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Real
  • Sleep
  • Cancer

• To subvert the tyranny of our execrable government, to break the connection with England, the never-failing source of all our political evils and to assert the independence of my country- these were my objectives. To unite the whole people of Ireland, to abolish the memory of all past dissensions, and to substitute the common name of Irishman in place of the denominations of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter - these were my means.

  

  Wolfe Tone
  • Political
  • Memories
  • Catholic

• When I was young, they just gave me the lead. And when I got old, they wouldn't see me at all.

  

  Polly Bergen