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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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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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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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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Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
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My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.
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My husband always smells good to me.
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Life can be a lot broader... when you realize one simple thing: And that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people who were no smarter than you. And you can build your own life that other people can live in. So build a life. Don't live one. Build one. Find your opportunity, and always be sexy.
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In my experience, young people fighting for the passage of the DREAM Act and to prevent the deportation of those who are eligible are among the most committed and fearless advocates for change in this country.
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On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.
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Can the U.S. support two Formula 1 races? I think so.
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There's something pretty awesome about staying with a character and growing.
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Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
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The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.
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There is a group of us that met through Howard Klein's class in Los Angeles. Howard Klein is a prominent acting teacher. We got together and did this short Night Music that was such an amazing experience, Guy and I were thinking, 'Okay, what do we do next?' So he wrote this next movie of his, Loulou.
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I'm very bad with music. I don't know any new music. I've listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life.
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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.
