Kathryn Grayson (Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick) Quotes
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The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's creativity. It's a belief that every person counts.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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I don't buy art to put away somewhere. I buy art to appreciate, enjoy, and live with. It's supposed to add to your life.
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When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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There's a need to keep the history of an artform going, parallel with the new work that's being done.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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I don't think you will meet anyone in Israel who will ever burn the American flag.
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If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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A dark poem is meant to redeem the dark part.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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The recreational golfer who gives it careful thought will conclude that the favorite golf hole in his life played downhill, gradually or severely, and normally was downwind as well.
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I love fashion, and that's how I express myself.
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I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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You dance because you have to. Dance is an essential part of life that has always been with me.
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America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
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You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it.
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I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows.
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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together.
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I must be the oldest living child soprano.
