Jo Stafford Quotes
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
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I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.
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It's not really difficult to go from one voice into the next.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.
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I've been writing in some way, shape, or form for as long as I can remember.
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Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.
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A person who is shallow aspires to depth; one who is ugly aspires to beauty; one who is narrow aspires to breadth; one who is poor aspires to wealth; one who is humble aspires to esteem. Whatever one lacks in oneself he must seek outside.
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Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing.
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The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
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If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead - and I'd much rather be alive.
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Now you can get artisanal everything - pickles, coffees, house-cured meats, mustard. The pendulum has swung back to this kind of food, and it gives me the greatest hope for the future, especially because we're living in a time with issues like polluted Gulf Coast seafood and food labeled organic that may not really be organic.
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Every good laboratory consists of first rate men working in great harmony to insure the progress of science; but down at the end of the hall is an unsociable, wrong-headed fellow working on unprofitable lines, and in his hands lies the hope of discovery.
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The beauty of jazz is that it can accommodate all styles. You can take jazz and put rock in it, and it's still jazz.
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CEOs resign when the internal dynamics of the company and the external dynamics of the company actually come together to say it is appropriate. When the internal dynamics ask you whether you have a replacement. I think the transition from CEOships have also become cartoonish.
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We will do it sooner rather than later.
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I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
