Eydie Gorme Quotes
I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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We are not going to turn our backs on people who have been persecuted, turn our backs on people who have been threatened by terror.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
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I think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Country music is what is sincere; that's the main thing.
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Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.
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I eat, sleep, and drink my character. It is my fantasy to go to another planet.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.
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Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated.
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I was in Las Vegas playing at the original El Rancho Vegas, with Joe E. Louis, who took me there as a supporting act. And he came to see me.
