Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes

They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

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• I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Career
  • Me
  • Football

• I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Best

• I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Life
  • Change
  • Rest

• The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • House
  • Process
  • Navy

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
  • Man
  • Gay

• I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.

  

  Kate Upton
  • World
  • Want
  • Voice

• We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Men
  • More
  • Behavior

• As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Society
  • Change

• So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they're very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Life
  • Family
  • Religious

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Life
  • Rewarding
  • Formal

• It's not uncommon in South Korea for a building to not have a women's bathroom.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Women
  • Building
  • Bathroom

• Capital grows in one place to a huge mass in a single hand, because it has in another place been lost by many. This is centralisation proper, as distinct from accumulation and concentration.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Lost
  • Single
  • Hand

• When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.

  

  Patanjali
  • Mind

• I have seen all I care to see and heard rather more.

  

  Jack Vance

• I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

  

  Joe Eszterhas
  • Writing
  • Loyalty

• We have this wonderful language and we don't appreciate it. That's old-fashioned me, but when I went to school, everyone had elocution lessons, not to sound posh but so you could be understood.

  

  Penelope Keith
  • School

• Punishment is lame, but it comes.

  

  George Herbert

• You do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of 'then' and 'maybe,' but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• As an athlete, you are literally programmed to endure a specific amount of pain.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • You
  • Pain
  • Athlete

• Course you been hurt. You was born to hurt. What make you wanna forget somethin that important? Power that’s worth somethin -real power!-live an’ grow from the hurt you feed it.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Important
  • Live
  • Real

• My career was always about working with people, and understanding issues and problems and helping them to solve those issues and problems. How you deal with people - that's what diplomacy is all about. So while I'm not a career diplomat, many of the skills I had seemed to directly translate into the diplomatic arena.

  

  John Roos
  • People
  • Career
  • Understanding

• They're paying me an outrageous sum of money; $40,000 a week, which is totally silly.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
  • Stupid
  • Week
  • Silly