Mel Ferrer Quotes
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From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.
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I lived in Norway and Texas when I was a kid.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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People treat you one way when you're champion, but when you're not the champion, everything changes. People treat you different.
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Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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We've written something like 900 songs in all.
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.
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You're asked, 'Do you know kung-fu?' Yeah. That's what we do. We wake up, we brush our teeth, we do kung-fu!
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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.
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He committed mayhem upon his person. He did everything to him that a man can do who is hampered with boxing gloves.
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Chris Cornell: Inside Soundgarden, Audioslave Singer's Final Days. Rolling Stone (May 29, 2017).
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We ask from the heart that supermarkets, which are now more profitable and selling more, help us to take care of the pocketbook of the people by not raising prices.
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I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.
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Disasters teach us humility.
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Gertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
