Myrna Loy (Myrna Adele Williams) Quotes

I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

Myrna Loy

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• Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• MacAllister wasn’t always right, but he was smart enough to know that. He was willing to change his mind when the evidence pointed in a different direction. That fact alone put MacAllister very nearly in a class by himself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
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• I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education.

  

  Alexander Wang
  • School
  • Business
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• It's hard when something's bigged up because you want people to watch it, so you have to promote it. It'd be great if it was the old-fashioned days when there was no press, and you just switched on and thought, 'Oh, God, what's going on?'

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • People
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• I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'

  

  Leah Pipes

• I didn't know initially whether I'd like doing TV and whether I'd be able to work with other people. I've always done my own thing. I've never put myself into that situation, but it's the most fun I've had in years.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
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• We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla.

  

  Christian Dior
  • Women
  • War
  • Period

• I believe in workers' rights when people are doing a good job.

  

  John Caudwell
  • People
  • Good
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• I discovered the Clash, the Pistols, obviously the Ramones, Blondie.

  

  Jerry Only

• Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

  

  Alan Garner
  • People
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• Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

  

  Lorne Michaels
  • Sometimes
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• You are what you are by what you BELIEVE!

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe

• I think I look very healthy. You've already seen what I've eaten, so I couldn't be anorexic, and I wouldn't throw up if you paid me $1,000, so I'm not bulimic. Okay, for $1,000 I would stick my finger down my throat, but throwing up is the worst thing in the world.

  

  Courteney Cox
  • Up
  • World
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• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
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  • Eloquence

• It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Thinking
  • Artist
  • Appreciation

• I think, with music in general, people just inevitably connect with feeling. The opportunity to hear expressed feeling. That's what has always drawn me towards music. It's something where, by connecting to someone else's voice, I feel less lonely. I feel more alive. I feel more connected to the world and to the rest of humanity. Sometimes a voice can be like a lifeline.

  

  Antony Hegarty Antony and the Johnsons
  • People
  • Thinking
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• The new racism: Racism without 'racists.' Today, racial segregation and division often result from habits, policies, and institutions that are not explicitly designed to discriminate. Contrary to popular belief, discrimination or segregation do not require animus. They thrive even in the absence of prejudice or ill will. It's common to have racism without racists.

  

  Eduardo Bonilla-Silva
  • Today
  • Belief
  • Common

• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Thinking
  • Common
  • Carrying