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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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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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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History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them.
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I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.
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We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.
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Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
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Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
