Wanda Jackson Quotes
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.Wanda Jackson
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
Mamie Van Doren -
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Barbara Steele -
I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.
Lady Gaga -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
Banks -
I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
Fernando Botero -
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
Gabrielle Giffords -
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
Daniel Cudmore -
Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
Mandy Moore -
No, I am not a homosexual. If I were a homosexual, I would hope I would have the courage to say so. What's cruel is that you are forcing me to say I am not a homosexual. This means you are putting homosexuals down. I don't want to do that.
Ed Koch
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
Wendy Kopp -
It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
Abraham Lincoln -
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu -
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
Larry Brilliant -
I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
Eden Sher -
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
Harold Pinter
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I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
Larry Hagman -
I don't teach kids to be No. 1. Organizations and people that tell you you have to be No. 1; that's not it. You don't have to be No. 1. What I teach is to be as good as you can be. Use what you have and be as good as you can be. That's all you can do, anyway.
Jim Brown -
Whenever the government says, 'It's time to move on,' that means there's something they don't want you to know about.
Jesse Ventura -
I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.
Per Petterson -
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
James Surowiecki -
You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
Wanda Jackson