Sammy Cahn Quotes
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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As for pressure, there's always the desire to give my best to every film. After all, so many people put in so much of hard work.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
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I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
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I will govern according to the common weal, but not according to the common will.
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The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I fall in love too terribly hardFor love to ever last.
