Ethel Merman Quotes
Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
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At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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I mean, in 'Big' and 'Pleasantville,' it's a journey that the characters go on where I think they come to kind of meet themselves at the end and who they actually are and give full voice to who they actually are. And that, you know, obviously fascinates me for some reason. Maybe I didn't adequately grow up.
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I didn't allow failure to break my heart. So I wouldn't allow success to bloat my head.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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I really liked Kishore Kumar. He had a virile man's voice, and he was truly versatile.
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The auctioneer is talking for both people, and that's the big revelation about, 'Oh, that's what they're doing.' They're just doing it very fast, so you could kind of miss on that. He's speaking for you, because people in the crowd don't have a voice, so that's what really makes it compelling.
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I find myself listening to Talk Talk on repeat while I'm doing gardening in upstate New York. Their music is so languid, and I just love his voice.
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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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21. During that time, the embodied person does not know the attainment in the heart. It is known in the Samadhi. The difference in name is due to the difference in cause.
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O pastoral heart of England! like a psalmOf green days telling with a quiet beat.
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Who needs a heart, when a heart can be broken?
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The world is big … May it please the One who perchance is to expand the human heart to life’s full measure.
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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.
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There's no strategy involved in my career decisions. I do whatever roles make my heart beat faster.
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My mom was the center of my support system, that place I always went to talk things through, whether I was feeling joy or fear. She was always there with a huge, open heart and the best advice.
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Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it's bad for the heart.
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The first months at Harvard were more than challenging, as I came to the realization that the humanities could be genuinely interesting, and, in fact, given the weaknesses of my background, very difficult.
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I think it is more like a ghostthat has been following us both.Something vague that we're not seeing,something more like a feeling.
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Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart.
