Ethel Barrymore Quotes
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Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
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I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I love women more than anything.
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One of my side strange abilities is to hear a good song, no matter how it's being performed. Even if you get a bad performance, I can still hear that there's a good song.
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You can't be in love with a Google search.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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In times of crisis, the incumbent suffers. And the bigger the crisis, the greater the punishment inflicted on those in power unless they do something that makes a change.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
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I am far more a fan of aggressive entrepreneurs than I am of major CEOs. You look at major CEOs, and they are almost to a person quite timid. They don't act to defend the free market principles that are vital to growth.
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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I was tall and skinny, and at 15, I was approached to model. I figured that models got to travel, and it became my ticket to travel so much so that if an agency could not fly me to another country, I would fly on my cost so that I could see that country and also make some money.
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There is parody, when you make fun of people who are smarter than you; satire, when you make fun of people who are richer than you; and burlesque, when you make fun of both while taking your clothes off.
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A me non par che ben deciso,Né che ben giusto alcun giudicio cada,Ove prima non s'oda quanto nieghiLa parte o affermi, e sue ragioni alleghi.
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
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Textbooks are Soviet propaganda.
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There are some great questions to ask your doctor. If he says 'no,' then you find yourself a different doctor. There really has to be a change in how we medically look at women at this time. I mean, this is not just baby gloom.
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I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.
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I'm quite an untidy person in a lot of ways. But order makes me happy. I have to have a clear desk and a tidy desktop, with as few visual distractions as possible. I don't mind sound distractions, but visual ones freak me out.
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Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
