Ethel Merman Quotes
My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I'm not some sort of tormented soul looking for an identity in the roles I take. I became an actress because I just love dressing up and playing.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
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A laugh is a terrible weapon.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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The peoples of this world must unite or they will perish.
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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When someone asks about a career in fashion, I say start at the bottom. If you want to start a business, you have to know it from the ground up.
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You thrive in your career when you thrive with yourself.
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I am pop, but like to shake things up a bit - funky things people wouldn't expect.
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My career at Warner Brothers consisted of one musical short subject. I was running around in a bear skin. Very chic.
