Irving Berlin Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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I think that there are a lot of elements and events that will make you scared in life and make you not want to sort of show your true self.
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You must not lean on a tree on Sabbath, if the tree might be dependent on you for support.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.
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Who has connections to Connecticut? That's where rich people go to live the rest of their life in the woods.
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Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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All I can hope to do is instill great morality in my son and trust him along the way. The music he listens to or how he chooses to wear his hair doesn't define his moral compass, and if he wants to listen to country music and wear a cowboy hat too, that's fine.
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I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.
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My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to do something comprehensive. We won that fight, and once we kick through this door, there'll be more legislation to follow.
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By and large, we're a bread-eating culture. People like sandwiches. We don't really over-think that one.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
