Irene Dunne Quotes
Our home in Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born on December 20, was one of great happiness.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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Compromise, contrary to popular opinion, does not mean selling out one's principles. Compromise means working out differences to forge a solution which fits the diversity of the body politic.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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There's no silver bullet when it comes to helping all children achieve. Great public schools are our best shot.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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If you look at the charts every year, there may be five or ten memorable songs from each year.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I don't think Flo Rida gets on just any song. If you look at the songs he has done - even The Saturdays one - was a hit. If it's not good enough, then he won't do it.
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As far as guys who perform onstage, I love Chris Rock. I'm kind of jaded on everyone else.
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I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, 'You're wrong' I say, 'What can you expect of an ass?'
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A lot of companies are global.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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Our home in Louisville, Kentucky, where I was born on December 20, was one of great happiness.
