E. Y. Harburg Quotes
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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I never left doo wop.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
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Gods always behave like the people who make them.
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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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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I like singing all songs, really, but I find that writing social commentary comes naturally.
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I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.
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Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
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The White House is not where power comes from in this country. The cities and the local communities of this nation are prepared to save Washington - and not vice versa.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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We always work at least a month to six weeks before we go on the road, usually for something like eight to 12 hours a night. It took six weeks to do it this time. We just play virtually everything we know.
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Follow the yellow brick road.
