Ethel Merman Quotes

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

Ethel Merman

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• Attitude

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • People
  • Fun
  • Control

• The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • United States
  • Muslim

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Country
  • Poet
  • Him

• We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Country
  • Education

• When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Country
  • Antique
  • Flea Markets

• 'Perfect' is about a set-up that looks perfect from the outside - beautiful country house, beautiful wife and mother, everything where it should be - and the deep fissures that, in fact, lie beneath that. 'Perfect' was partly a response to the shock of my first book, 'The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry,' being a success.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • Up
  • Country
  • Book

• We are passing through a very sensitive time, and on the whole, this country is facing very big problems.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Time
  • Country
  • Problems

• We've never made progress in this country or in this state by lowering expectations.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Progress
  • Expectations

• On 'Van Halen,' I was a young punk, and everything revolved around the fastest kid in town, gunslinger attitude. But I'd say that at the time of 'Fair Warning,' I started concentrating more on songwriting. But I guess in most people's minds I'm just a gunslinger.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Time
  • Attitude

• They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Women
  • Guy

• When Bangladesh refused to renew my passport, I used U.N. travel documents. You can't disown your country.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Country
  • You
  • Travel

• The key to a resilient global recovery, where growth in each country advances growth in every country, is action directed at supporting demand at home.

  

  Lael Brainard
  • Country
  • Home
  • Action

• I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • God
  • Country
  • She

• Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

  

  Patrick Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity. Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Country
  • Money
  • Romantic

• Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Country

• Whether you are planning a safari, doing a homework assignment on Botswana, or promoting your local business, Street View will allow you to experience a slice of the country.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• My mom's whole life had been my gymnastics. We struggled to connect when I stopped.

  

  Rachele Brooke Smith
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Gymnastics

• India has a long tradition of reinterpreting religious myths.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Long
  • Religious

• All that has sensation and growth - all matter, in short - will pass through man. When that has happened, the great Day of Judgment will come, and that is the end point of the mysteries in the philosophy of the prophets.

  

  Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Great
  • Growth

• Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Country
  • Control
  • Attitude