Jerry Leiber Quotes
Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that?
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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I'm not running from the left; I'm running from the bottom. I'm running in fierce advocacy for working-class New Yorkers.
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Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
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The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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At the time of death your tongue will speak only what is in the heart.To say la illaha illa Allah, you must live it.
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Now turn the page, come along on the ride, and let me tell you about the death and life of Charlie St. Cloud.
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Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.
