Ethel Merman Quotes

In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

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• When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Trying
  • Find
  • Gold

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Happy

• The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Start

• The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Sports
  • Achievement

• 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Kids
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Struggle

• Donatella Versace has been a renegade. Just an incredible, artistic person.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Person
  • Just
  • Been

• I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Writing
  • Views
  • Liked

• We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries…I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Country
  • May
  • Free

• In 'Citadel,' I play a very young father. When I first signed onto 'Hunky Dory,' I was actually 18 years old.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • Father

• I love accents.

  

  Claire Forlani

• Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Time
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Stars make money on real movies. They make big money on real movies. To come into my world, I've got some M&Ms and some potato chips, and I'm asking you to move furniture.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • World
  • Real
  • Money

• Teen fandom is so potent. Any choice they make in pop culture forces the rest of the world to take notice.

  

  Alycia Debnam-Carey
  • World
  • Culture
  • Rest

• Search as a paradigm will continue to be probably even increasingly important because the information that's out there is only going to grow exponentially - and the only way to sort through all that is by some form of search.

  

  David Filo
  • Important
  • Search

• What does 'Ngaio' mean? I don't know. Like many Maori words, it has a number of meanings - clever, light on the water, a little bug - but I don't know which my parents had in mind.

  

  Ngaio Marsh
  • Mind
  • Parents
  • Words

• It's impossible to accept love from anyone else if you don't love yourself. It's a big issue, particularly for us plus-size ladies and for anyone dealing with weight, because we're not taught to love ourselves or be our own cheerleaders.

  

  Chrissy Metz

• Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.

  

  Darren Shan
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

  

  Lea Seydoux
  • Time
  • Strong
  • Judge

• Know, he that foretells his own calamity, and makes events before they come, twice over, doth endure the pains of evil destiny.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Destiny

• We didn't necessarily have the best day today. Looking back, it was an ugly game two years ago.

  

  Brady Quinn
  • Game
  • Looking Back

• Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.

  

  Charles Krauthammer
  • Together
  • Stop
  • Die

• I'm constantly trying to strip away layers of perceived thought or cliche.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Trying

• In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me.

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Handed