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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Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture.
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Putting your hands in the earth is very grounding, if you'll excuse the pun.
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I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.
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When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.
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I've got a computer, but I won't go near it.
