Irene Dunne Quotes
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
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Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.
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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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When you know your intention, you are in a position to choose the consequences that you will create for yourself. When you choose an intention that creates consequences for which you are willing to be responsible, that is a responsible choice.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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The composition of the primary is so different than when I was first elected governor in 1978.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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I'm a huge fan of Eighties music.
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I didn't work for a year and a half after 'Melvin and Howard' because all I was being offered was silly parts.
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We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
