George M. Cohan Quotes

I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

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• Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Teamwork

• I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Fashion
  • Model
  • Week

• My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Trying
  • You
  • Stop

• I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • May
  • Poetry

• The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Want
  • Wish
  • Irish

• I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
  • Fun
  • Just

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• Bad ballplayers make good managers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Managers

• As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Done
  • Always
  • Digital

• In my own case, the most inflammatory statements I have ever made are ones that I have written and remain willing to defend.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Own
  • Ever
  • My Own

• I've always wanted to do a lot of things.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Always
  • Things
  • Wanted

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Never mind money; the gifts of time and skill call into being the richest marketplace in the world.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Time
  • World
  • Mind

• Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Period

• I have very eclectic tastes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Very
  • Tastes
  • Eclectic

• We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Compliments

• Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Together
  • Know
  • Homework

• I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • People
  • Long
  • Relationship

• Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Life
  • Band
  • Like

• Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.

  

  Sally Ride
  • American
  • Space
  • Responsibility

• The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Men
  • Single
  • Same

• I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.

  

  George M. Cohan
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