Jimmy Durante Quotes
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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My childhood was great because my family has an amazing sense of humor, and it was just all making videos and jokes and doing skits and things.
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I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.
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We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize those images no matter how virtuous our aspirations and our intentions are.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
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Giving yourself permission to lose guarantees a loss.
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Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
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I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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If you love our country you are national, and if you love our people you are a socialist.
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Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks,And he has chambers in King's Bench walks.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.
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How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
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Avicii's been a supporter of my music for years, and we've been writing songs together for a long time.
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I'm mortified!
