Agnes Moorehead Quotes
It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Events are not a matter of chance.
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I left home when I was just 17, finished up high school, and went to work.
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It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
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My breasts have had a brilliant career. I've just tagged along for the ride.
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What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.
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The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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Certainly a sort of industrial use of creatures, so that geese are fed in such a way as to produce as large a liver as possible, or hens live so packed together that they become just caricatures of birds, this degrading of living creatures to a commodity seems to me in fact to contradict the relationship of mutuality that comes across in the Bible.
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You get married and have kids, and you get sick of having the government take your money and tell you what to do. I'm just a conservative guy.
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As soon as I left school at 16, I worked in a factory making aircraft components.
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The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
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I have friends who are black whose families opened their arms to them when they came out; I have friends who were white where they were rejected.
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In '86 or '87, the welfare lists were at the lowest level in 17 years. Why? Because the economy was the best it was in 17 years. There were jobs.
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All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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I have no credentials. I have no money. I literally come from a poor place. I was a servant. I dropped out of college. The next thing you know I'm writing for the 'New Yorker,' I have this sort of life, and it must seem annoying to people.
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I like going to new environments. I'm so accustomed to going to Duke, Carolina and Kentucky, and those are phenomenal. But it's nice going to new places.
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It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.
