Ethel Merman Quotes
Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman
Quotes to Explore
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I usually say I left puberty at 58.
Ingmar Bergman
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
Natalie Clifford Barney
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
Federico Fellini
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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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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
Mandy Moore
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Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Margaret Fuller
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And not only my own brothers and sisters agreed so but my brothers and sisters in law; and their children, although but young, had the like agreeable natures and affectionate dispositions.
Margaret Cavendish
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It almost goes without saying that when you are a startup, one of the first things you do is you start setting aside money to defend yourself from patent lawsuits, because any successful company, even moderately successful, is going to get hit by a patent lawsuit from someone who's just trying to look for a payout.
Charles Duhigg
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Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.
Mark Batterson
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I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other.
Ben Kingsley
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Nec speres aliquid nec extimescas,exarmaueris impotentis iram;at quisquis trepidus pauet uel optat,quod non sit stabilis suique iuris,abiecit clipeum locoque motusnectit qua ualeat trahi catenam.
Boethius
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Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
George Eliot
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Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead of what one is. I know this well...Vanity and dishonesty may be vices, but they're also the first forms of protection I ever knew.
Dennis Lehane
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If you hate the war, that’s fine. But you should still support the troops. They don’t get to pick where they’re deployed. They just gave the American people a blank check for anything up to and including the value of their lives, and the least everyone else can do is be thankful. Buy them dinner. Mow their yard. Bake them cookies.
Chris Kyle
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The sobering thought is that individuals and societies are not, in the end, remembered for how they made their money, but for how they spent it.
Charles Handy
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You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.
Robert Frost
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I've dug so deep into his background, I can practically tell you when he stopped waring diapers.
Christie Craig
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If any country were indeed filled with men, each thus diligently discharging the duties of his own station without breaking in upon the rights of others, but on the contrary endeavoring, so far as he might be able, to forward their views and promote their happiness, all would be active and harmonious in the goodly frame of human society.
William Wilberforce
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And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne
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Over the next 40 years, he rose to lead that department. Pop was the tall, strong, silent type, quiet and dignified, and passionate about the rule of law. Back during Prohibition, he heard that bootleggers were running beer through fire hoses between Yonkers and the Bronx.
James Comey
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Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.
Emile Zola
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All my boys make me laugh.
Liv Tyler
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Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.
Ethel Merman
