Jimmy Durante Quotes
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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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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Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
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I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
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My brain puts baths in the same category as yoga: it'd be 'nice' to relax for an hour, but I just want a 10-minute, high-impact workout; get in, get out. Showers are my cardio.
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There are months when I'm on a plane every day!
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I’m broken, I have cut myself wide open. I can see my heart and it is not what I believed it was, it is not good and kind and all the things I have always thought I am.
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I'm mortified!
