Ethel Merman Quotes
My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
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My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Because I was so quiet, my father let me spend hours and hours next to him while he would sketch. Everyone else was always asking things from him. I wasn't asking anything. I was just happy to be there.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
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There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.
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Nicki Minaj is a very strong woman who knows exactly what she wants. As an artist, I understand her, and I could see how she could be misunderstood by a lot of people, but she is really passionate about her art, and that's something I really admire about her.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
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Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.
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My name is Adam. My father's name is Adam. Having the same name as your father, it's alright until your voice changes. My friends would always call up, 'Is Adam there?' My father would say, 'This is Adam.' My friends would say, 'Adam, you were so wasted last night.'
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We will often talk to Liz Smith about couples and relationships because she always has an inside track, too.
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If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.
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Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.
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My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician.
