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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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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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 think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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When I was first starting to achieve success in the WWE, I got to be surrounded by the last class of true greats, and they all had little tips and secrets. You learn a lot from watching somebody work.
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.
