Cass Elliot (Ellen Naomi Cohen) Quotes

My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

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• I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.

  

  Randi Weingarten
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• Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
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• Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

  

  Natalie Merchant
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• I'm always going to be a singer.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
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• I don't believe in luck. ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.

  

  Janet Jackson
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• I am working for a better United Nations. Nothing is perfect. You should never rely on only one source, but rather rely on those you believe in the most.

  

  Angelina Jolie
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• I am doing everything humanly possible to try and get well, but lately things have just kept getting worse.

  

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• I went to public school up until junior high.

  

  Kristen Stewart
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• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  

  Donald Miller
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• As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
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• The true gospelstands before the throne of God declaring, 'Jesus did it all.'

  

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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• Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power.

  

  Plato
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• I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• Peace of mind is the basis of a healthy body and a healthy mind; so peace of mind, a calm mind, is very, very important.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• You hope that the same people are coming back. I love playing with Angela [Bassett]. She's fierce. I met her years and years ago when she was a student at Yale, so to see her do these fierce roles and go on to [be] this powerhouse has just been awesome.

  

  Kathy Bates
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• Some roles are easier to choose, some roles are more difficult because they are more daring. Sometimes you have to dare.

  

  Isabelle Huppert
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• My role in the Mamas and Papas was basically just to sing.

  

  Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
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