Jimmy Durante Quotes

Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Like
  • Radical
  • Critic

• I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Experience
  • Want
  • Media

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Years

• Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Fun
  • Some
  • Harry Potter

• I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are the real thing. You have to concentrate for five days. It's a lot of time, and not easy to do it day in and day out. If people have played 70-100 Tests, it's a lot of cricket, a lot of concentration and dedication.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Remember
  • Fun
  • Best

• My opinion can be completely different after a show.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Different
  • Opinion
  • Show

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Adventure
  • Down
  • Turn

• I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.

  

  Ed Helms
  • People
  • Character
  • Guy

• Poor air quality, which can be influenced by a variety of fumes, chemicals and allergens, is arguably the leading cause of triggers for most asthmatics in urban areas.

  

  Ian Smith
  • Quality
  • Air
  • Urban

• I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • World
  • Thought
  • Model

• Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Understand
  • Did
  • Rehab

• It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Good
  • God
  • Colors

• I was baptized Methodist, but I was mainly raised First Church of NFL, which is to say that my family, especially my father, was much more concerned with watching football on Sundays than attending services.

  

  Christopher Moore
  • Family
  • Father
  • Church

• I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem, Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams. I use it as my gas, so they say that I'm gassed, But without it I'd be last, so I ought to laugh.

  

  Kanye West
  • Power
  • Dream

• Interestingly, one thing I've found that neither women nor men give up on is the idea of men as protectors. Even in cases where the woman is earning more, they'll often tell me that if there were a fire or something, they would expect the man to be the one to protect them.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I am asked how to remain young, and I say 'Never, never work.' And that, of course, is the secret of it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Work
  • Secret
  • Young

• Be a awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

  

  Jimmy Durante
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