Ethel Merman Quotes
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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When the government takes video of people in public places, the images should only be kept as long as they may reasonably be needed to investigate a crime. After a few days, if there has not been a report of a crime, they should be destroyed.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
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Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
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The heart and soul of pop is newness, excitement, innovation.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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There are 12 million illegal immigrants in this country - drawing welfare benefits, sending their children to public schools, and pushing down wages for American workers - but the problem extends well beyond amnesty and open borders.
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Lying is the rule, not the exception.
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One of the high points of my career was winning the Grammy for 'I Will Survive.'
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I always said all my life if I wasn't born and they gave me the question I'd say I don't want to be born.
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I have trained my eye over and over ever since I was a kid. I was a bird watcher when I was a little boy. My grandmother gave me a bird book, and I got to like their colors.
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When I was going to school, I just wanted to be like everybody else. I would pull at my hair to try and get it to lie straight. America was where I would consume and absorb black culture, buy Ultra Sheen and watch 'Soul Train,' but I still had that weird in-between thing.
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I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time.
