Ethel Merman Quotes
I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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I don't like looking outrageous.
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I am a firm believer that any legitimate government has to be based on rule of law and a recognition that all people are equal under the law.
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Hamm: If I could sleep I might make love. I'd go into the woods. My eyes would see … the sky, the earth. I'd run, run, they wouldn't catch me.
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
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The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.
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Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
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A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.
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When we do our legislation, we're not trying to figure out, 'How can I use this to run against you?' We say, 'How can we pass this bill to help both of our constituents?'
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When we grew up, our family and kind of gaggle of cousins would go to the south of France for the summers. And we just had a grand time.
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We live in a world where people can ridicule you at the push of the button. They can question you at the push of a button.
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Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
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You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
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I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.
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No one wants to wear clothes that were made from someone's blood.
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I always put on a brave face when I was the most terrified, the most trapped and out of control.
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I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.
