Johnny Mercer Quotes
My publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'Johnny Mercer
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
Owain Yeoman -
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
Tavi Gevinson -
Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
Wayne Rogers -
You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
J. J. Abrams -
I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
Octavia Spencer -
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
Walter Kirn
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
Kate McKinnon -
Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson -
My own philanthropic efforts have always included an educational element, whether it's expanding opportunities to educate a promising mind or extending the brain's ability to learn.
Naveen Jain -
We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.
Dan Hawkins -
Harvard is the home of American ideas.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.
Vin Scully -
I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
Maggie Grace -
I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to help us out from the sidelines.
Laura Robson -
I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
Immaculee Ilibagiza -
Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.
Paramahansa Yogananda -
Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
Barbara Castle
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When you see the sacrifices that your parents make for you, you want to do well for them.
Dara Khosrowshahi -
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
William R. Alger -
I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.
M. J. Hyland -
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.
Martin Parr -
I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
Aasif Mandvi -
My publicity agent … went to hear Father Divine and he had a sermon and his subject was 'you got to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative.' And I said 'Wow, that's a colorful phrase!'
Johnny Mercer