Ethel Barrymore Quotes
At age 76: A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
Gavin Newsom
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
Foster Friess
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
Kate Williams
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
Zell Miller
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It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.
Paddy Ashdown
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
Dan Webster
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
Brown Campbell
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It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
Camille Paglia
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
Kacey Musgraves
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It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
Patrick Kane
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An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.
Mao Zedong
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Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
Barry Ritholtz
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
Tallulah Bankhead
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People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton.
J. D. Vance
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In a democracy, you don't need anyone's permission to form a new political party, publish a politically charged article, or organize a 'tea party.' And in open markets, individuals are free to buy and invest as they see fit.
Gary Hamel
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It's bad enough being conned into singing an anti-war message by John Lennon when you think you're just wishing everyone a merry Christmas.
Ian Watson
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My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
Madhuri Dixit
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When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.
Kevin Spacey
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In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett
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You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair
C. S. Lewis
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At age 76: A good life is like a good play -- it has to have a satisfying and exciting third act.
Ethel Barrymore