E. Y. Harburg Quotes
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
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The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I've eaten ice cream from all over the world, but until you've tasted Graham's from Geneva, Illinois, you haven't had ice cream at all.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I can do whatever I want.
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I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
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When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.
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I would never like to endorse a fairness cream. I believe in natural beauty.
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When Michael Frere came to see Elizabeth about her autobiography All the Dogs of My Life she found him ‘such a boring little man. But it is because we are all growing old, and the bones of our inadequate minds come through the flesh that hid them.’ She hadn’t always found him boring, and Love, one of her best novels, is largely based on their romance.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
