Ethel Merman Quotes

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

Ethel Merman

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• Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.

  

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• My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.

  

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• For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

  

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• I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
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• What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.

  

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• Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.

  

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• It's better to be skinny than to be fat.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
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• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Life
  • Real
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• I don't spend on expensive brands. I don't need foreign holidays.

  

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• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

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  • Life
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• To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
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• I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
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• When more Chinese started coming after the Gold Rush, employed on large projects like the Pacific Railroad, anti-Chinese sentiment became shrill.

  

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• I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film, which is bad because it's how I make my living, but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

  

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• If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.

  

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• Growing up in New York City, my car culture is minimal. I rode on the train, the bus. I walked; I rode my bike, and when I was younger, I rode my skateboard.

  

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• Corrupt influence, which is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

  

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• 3) Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun.

  

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  • Mother
  • Nature

• No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
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• Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.

  

  David M. Shoup
  • God
  • Remember

• I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Afraid