Jackie Gleason Quotes
The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
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I rarely stay at home when I'm in New York. I'm always doing things. It brings you so much energy.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Some people collect vintage cars, I collect Birkins. The leather ones are £20,000.
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There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.
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Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
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Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
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I used to make my grandparents pay a dollar to watch me sing 'Grease' songs and 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' in their living room. I was always an entertainer, and I would always do all that stuff, but it slowly evolved into a career, which is great, but it wasn't a plan.
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The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
