Ethel Merman Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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A lot of what is publicized now is really pretty trivial stuff - you know, what I eat for breakfast, where I have my pedicures, questions that I just cannot for the life of me understand why someone would want to know that.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.
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It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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Harvard is the home of American ideas.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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When you realize that the uncut 'Porgy and Bess' started me off, that I'd have the opportunity to do a ton of 'Stoppard,' 'Hairspray,' that I'm able to do 'Il Trittico' at the Met – how do I top that?
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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The pen and the written word hold a great deal of power.
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I think, as a family, it’s important to sympathize and be supportive of what I do, I believe that’s what real family means. In this unsettling world we need a safe haven which I think all of us direly lack nowadays, and when I read the script, I could see that Da-hye, Yu-ri and rest of the homeless family were desperate for that.
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Pat Roberts and I both feel very strongly that when we get to Iran, that we can't make the same mistakes. We have to ask the questions, the hard questions before, not afterwards, and get the right intelligence.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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Some believe we have little or no role in our own Christian maturity. God does everything, they think, and we simply have to "let go and let God." After all, if it's the "fruit of the Spirit," we should passively let him work within us as we abide in Christ.
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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
