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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I never quite toed the line.
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You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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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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When your kids are their hungriest, put out raw vegetables and dip - simple. It takes two seconds.
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Some people believe I am the third Buddha, but this is people's choice. From me, never. I have never pretended I am special.
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I've been picked on my whole entire life, and I feel like I started the IAmMoreThan campaign on Instagram to try to find other people who have been bullied and totally overcame it and did something amazing with it.
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It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.
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No one is served or benefitted by believing in false or faulty ideas.
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I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.
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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.
