Ethel Merman Quotes

I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

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• People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• If you go to India the roads are being built almost entirely with private sector money and by the private sector. If you look at many, many countries in Europe that's how they're doing it.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Money
  • Look
  • Roads

• I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Time
  • May
  • Training

• I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Live
  • Facts

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• I actually like football a great deal.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Great
  • Like
  • Football

• Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.

  

  Gates McFadden
  • Life
  • Information
  • Fast

• I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Day

• I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • People
  • Friends
  • Brooklyn

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Think
  • Well
  • Did

• My career is an open book, but my life is not.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Book
  • Career

• The first bit of vinyl I bought was Michael Jackson's 'Bad.'

  

  Olly Murs
  • Bad
  • First
  • Vinyl

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.

  

  Kate Clinton
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Style

• Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Difficult

• One of the problems is that kids who don't read - who are not doing well in school - they know they're not doing well. And they want everyone to be in that same category.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • School
  • Kids
  • Doing

• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • True
  • Lies
  • Tell

• I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Music
  • Earth
  • Wonder

• And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • Good

• It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

  

  Betty Friedan
  • Men
  • Home
  • Society

• All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• It's hard and continuous dedication that brings lasting results.

  

  Jane Powell
  • Hard
  • Results
  • Dedication

• I mentioned that I was thinking of getting out of the business after Call Me Madam. I thought maybe I should become a homebody.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Business
  • Call Me
  • Homebody