Jo Stafford Quotes
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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I am not opposed to intelligence reform on its face, but any changes should reflect the current context.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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No man may make another free.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Most actors are not rich - they are very poor indeed. What keeps them going is that they just love the job.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?
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Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
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Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very diverse relations obtain but belonging to a single category: these are associative relations.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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When politicians began to see that every last thing that they did in public could be broadcast to a mass audience, the fact that the stakes were so much higher now that every moment became fraught caused them to become more cautious, and the consultants very gradually but inevitably became literal reactionaries.
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Whatever you do, you do out of a passion.
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The most beautiful thing about music is that it transcends most anything.
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The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.
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Sometimes I'm wrong, sometimes not. But I'm an instinctual player.
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I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
