Ethel Merman Quotes
As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.
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Violence is not only impractical but immoral.
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The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
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Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.
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It is right, or absolute right, that an individual should develop the powers that are in him. He may be said to have a "natural right" to become what he is capable of becoming. This is his only natural right.
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I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.
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It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.
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You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death.
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We'll see how the guitar players of the world take to it.
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“I never try to please others when I make music; There is only one person who has to like what comes out of those speakers and that person is myself!”
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Educate ourselves; educate other people, the population in general, to fight fear and ignorance, to eliminate little by little the subjection to nature and natural forces which our economy has not yet mastered.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.
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I simply can't understand the stereotyping women as film makers who make soppy family dramas. Look at Katherine Bigelow: she has directed Point Break and Strange Days. I hate labels of any kind. Just because you are a woman you can't do this or that? Twenty years ago women entering the work force was enough of a shock. People just like the predictable; they feel safe with it. You know, it's such a bore.
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Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love.
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As far as dramas are concerned, it's considered passe for playwrights to turn out anything the average person can understand.
