Glenn Miller Quotes
I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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My mother is the most supportive mother in the world, she's magical.
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Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren't very successful.
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In all the world, rich people are very unpopular.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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Responsibility for the proper conduct of children was not confined to their parents only. When they misbehaved, they misbehaved against the community. And a senior member of the community was expected to do something about it.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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I wasn't the prettiest girl in class. No breasts, short legs, gangly teeth. I didn't think I was model material, that's for sure.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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I know there is moral outage in regard to Mr. Milosevic, and that is certainly justified. But what about our response?
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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Isn't he Bush the worst president ever? I mean, when his term is over, he has to walk back to Texas.
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I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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You can think of my films as cautionary tales, but you might even think of them as despairing tales, because at least in a cautionary tale, you have this idea that by listening to the story you can assure a better outcome. Whereas I'm not at all convinced that's the case. In fact, if anything, I'm convinced that it's the opposite.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.
