Rosemary Clooney Quotes
I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
Quotes to Explore
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.
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Grief is perhaps an unknown territory for you. You might feel both helpless and hopeless without a sense of a 'map' for the journey. Confusion is the hallmark of a transition. To rebuild both your inner and outer world is a major project.
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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.
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Americans love to hear good things about their bad habits.
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Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that.
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You’ll soon find out some wizarding families are much better than others, Potter. You don’t want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there.” He held out his hand to shake Harry’s, but Harry didn’t take it. “I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks,” he said coolly.
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It takes no time to fall in love, but it takes you years to know what love is.
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Don't do drugs to be cool, do 'em because you hate yourself.
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I would always love to be an athlete, but it's got to be a tough day when you have to hang up those cleats.
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The human spirit fails, except when the Holy Spirit fills.
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You just sort of get used to being one of the only women on set, so it's really refreshing to start to enter a time when that's not the case anymore.
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My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
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I believed we needed someone who would be able to build a team, lead and unite. I hoped that person would be Boris Johnson.
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I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.
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I'm the only instrument that's got the words, so I've got to be able to get that across.
