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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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I am quite loud and bolshie. I'm a big personality. I walk into a room, big and tall and loud.
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Brandon would talk to a wall, ... if he could get it to talk back to him.
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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
