Ethel Merman Quotes
I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.
 
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	The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.   
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	Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.   
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	Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.   
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	I think comics are really part of The Zeitgeist. They reflect back to us the issues that we're concerned about in the time they are written.   
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	Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.   
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	Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.   
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	Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.   
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	I don't like fashion. I don't like art. I do like smashing up expensive things.   
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	For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.   
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	If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.   
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	Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.   
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	I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.   
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	The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.   
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	Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.   
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	I never quite toed the line.   
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	You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.   
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	Then proudly smiled that old man To see the eager lad Rush madly for his pen and ink And for his blotting-pad – But, when he thought of publishing, His face grew stern and sad.   
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	I kept being asked by corporations to do corporate gigs. And I said, 'I don't have anything. I'm not a stand-up. You want me to come sing show tunes for you? I don't think so.'   
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	We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.   
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	So when I looked at pictures and produced my calendar and edited the pictures, it wasn't just about looking at myself and thinking I'm attractive. I try to take myself out of it and get into the whole process of putting it all together.   
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	No one plays this or any game perfectly. It's the guy who recovers from his mistakes who wins.   
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	Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to turn things around all by myself. I'm not a saint.   
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	I loved 'Solid Gold!'   
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	I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					