Kaye Ballard Quotes
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I would never let somebody say that they're me. That would be the ultimate betrayal of what I stand for.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.
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One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
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Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.
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Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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President Trump is quick to attack American students, immigrants, women, the LGBT community, journalists, and our international allies but he is either too weak or too ignorant to stand up to white supremacists and others who spew hatred.
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Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.
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I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.
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...Meanwhile in the USA paranoid Republicans have accused Barack Obama of being a ruthless despot hatching conspiracies to destroy the foundations of American society – yet in eight years of his presidency he barely managed to pass a minor health-care reform.
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I think a writer is a describer. She describes society and human nature as she sees it. She has to be both typical of that society and alone within it.
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Only the fresh revolutionary storms were strong enough to sweep away hoary prejudices against woman and only the productive-working people is able to effect the complete equalization and liberation of woman by building a new society.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.
