E. Y. Harburg Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I've probably said that in every feature I've been in. I've been repeatedly defined as the girlfriend or wife.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
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A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.
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All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.
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My mind is stuffed with quotes. Lines, couplets, paragraphs, stanzas; Bessie Smith, Stevie Smith, Tin Pan Alley, rock and roll. They tease or lead or hurl me into a dream space of jostling languages that I need to bask in each day in order to write.
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If I had a dream it would be to think, What would it be like for everybody to have the kind of health care I had? What would that feel like? How would that be, to live in that world? Because I'll tell you, to be really, really sick, and to not have money. That is terrifying. And in my opinion, a travesty.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
