Gerald Kaufman Quotes
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
Walter Annenberg
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
Iain Glen
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
Carla Bley
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
Nathan Myhrvold
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
Vanessa Mae
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Gaby Hoffmann
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My first name, with the rare two-r spelling, came from a sportswriter named Garry Schumacher. My parents didn't know him personally, but my mother liked the spelling.
Garry Marshall
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
Imogen Cunningham
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
Yvonne Strahovski
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Jacky Ickx
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.
Lana Turner
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Walter Cronkite
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Well, I'm a professional.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned gay bohemian. The straight people I knew in the sixties were very much opposed to it. I was, too, and it was never a possibility for gays, but when I saw how opposed the Religious Right was to it, I thought it a fight worth fighting.
Edmund White
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I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
Yami Gautam
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I decided to get Ph.D. in experimental physics because experimental physicists have their own room in the Institute where they can hang their coat, whereas theoretical physicists have to hang their coat at the entrance.
George Gamow
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Barbara Tuchman
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The recurrence of a phenomenon like Edison is not very likely. The profound change of conditions and the ever increasing necessity of theoretical training would seem to make it impossible. He will occupy a unique and exalted position in the history of his native land, which might well be proud of his great genius and undying achievements in the interest of humanity.
Nikola Tesla
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A nation's hope of lasting peace cannot be firmly based upon any race in armaments but rather upon just relations and honest understanding with all other nations.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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True movies will never be measured by how much they make - they'll be measured by how they make you feel.
Kevin Costner
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The longest suicide note in history.
Gerald Kaufman