Sheldon Harnick Quotes
I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
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Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
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I want to help accelerate the evolution of the press because right now, newsrooms are cutting investigative journalists, and we need investigative journalists.
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When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me.
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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A very interesting and promising cluster has formed here [in the Russian Far East ], and we would be happy if our potential investors, our counterparts from abroad, first of all those from the Asia-Pacific region, knew more about it.
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Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.
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But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.
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Thought and action must never part company.
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Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
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I'm doing a fun EP. It's called 'Songs in the Key of Phife: Eight Is Enough.' It's radio-friendly, but then a lot of it just has that raw hip-hop. Some of it will be vintage Tribe, but for the most part I'm just letting my voice be heard.
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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I have to eat in a way that's good for me.
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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
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Probably the biggest compliment someone can give you is, "Gosh, you look great. You don't look tired."
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Nice is different than good.
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We need a greening of globalisation.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.
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I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.
