Ethel Merman Quotes
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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99.5 percent of the people that walk around and say they are a social media expert or guru are clowns. We are going to live through a devastating social media bubble.
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
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I like everything that people say. No matter what they say. You gay, you a punk. You got a nice girlfriend, you're ugly, you can't rap, you're the hardest.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
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And at that point, I think my experience in covering the subject helped me. I think editors felt comfortable with the idea of me telling this story because I had demonstrated that I know this business pretty well.
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I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.
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Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
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My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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I still have to audition for most things.
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You'll never prove you're too good for a job by not doing your best.
