Arlene Dahl Quotes
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It takes a great man to be a good listener.
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My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.
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I think the thing I'd like to do is just educate the people to some of the travesties they can end.
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All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
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I don't look forward to anything. I take things as they come.
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I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
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My dad wasn't the biggest role model, but he was a great musician and I loved him very much. He was a character.
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We condemn any kind of abuse of Muslim women or women anywhere in the world.
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I grew up in L.A., so I'm a huge Lakers fan and Kobe fan.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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I like spending time with my husband.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
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I grew up going to public school, and they were huge public schools. I went to a school that had 3,200 kids, and I had grade school classes with 40-some kids. Discipline was rigid. Most of the learning was rote. It worked.
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It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
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Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.
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With enthusiasm anything is possible.
