Jimmy Durante Quotes
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While others prayed for the good time coming, I worked for it.
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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I think I am a star - I'm simply a funny-shaped star.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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Arab society features apartheid of women, apartheid of homosexuals, and apartheid of Christians, Jews, and democracy.
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You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
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When I started Instagram, I kind of just did what I like to do or to show the things I like, whether it be sneakers or weird flowers, have the little drops of myself and my style kind of fluidly throughout. That was really helpful in starting and carving out my own place.
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I think any of us who have been involved in the mission of Iraq have developed a great deal of affection for the Iraqi people and are emotionally invested in what we think is a vital mission... So I think any of my contemporaries would welcome the opportunity to go back and make a contribution to this extraordinarily important mission.
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I love going to football games and going to homecoming dances and just doing normal things.
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Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.
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Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
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‘I have often noticed that being a devoted wife saps the intellect,’ murmured Tommy.
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'90s fashion is awesome. Best of both worlds - you had power pop, like the Spice Girls and Shampoo. But then you had Nirvana and Hole. And you also had '90s dance music like N-Trance, who kind of blended both.
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I'm always onstage, and everyone there already loves me, so I go with this certain confidence.
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All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.
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I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I can call friends, and I have a close knit group of friends whom I feel comfortable with.
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History will find some of you but not all of you. Because you can't know which of you will make history, you must do your best to be ready.
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I think changing the Democratic Party platform at the convention is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.
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My parents got to see all my hard work pay off.
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All great things are done for their own sake.
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It is a very rare church indeed that encourages its members to think for themselves in religious matters, or even tolerates this, and in most of them the clergy are quite ready to lay down the law in other fields too.
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Everybody wants ta get inta da act!
