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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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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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 go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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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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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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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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I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
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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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She doesn't get to say much in the official biography - I believe they are out of wine, etc., practical things - watching with one eye as he goes about the world calling himself The Son Of Man.
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What would happen if we finally succeeded in following the directions of nature and recognized that the great secret of education lies hidden in the maxim, 'Do not educate'?
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Some forms of reality are so horrible we refuse to face them, unless we are trapped into it by comedy. To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.
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When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
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Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.
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Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I'm happy.
