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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And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.
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Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.
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I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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I am still hopeful we can go through the season unbeaten - a frightening thought.
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I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
