Deanna Durbin Quotes
There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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I've seen a lot of great players that couldn't get to the top because of horses, and I've seen a lot of normal players that got higher and higher because of horses.
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Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.
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The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.
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We are faced with the dilemma of how or if we demonstrate where we stand on critical issues and corresponding social ills. We are also bombarded with so many instances of inhumanity that it can be difficult to determine what part we play in human progress.
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What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn't accessible. That it's full of bizarre ingredients people have never heard of that are really expensive. There's also a perception that it's time consuming and not very filling.
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All decisions originate in the brain. So if we can better understand what's happening in the brain when we make investment decisions, maybe one day we'll be able to make more accurate financial forecasts - for a stock or even the entire market.
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If I was President of the United States, I'd rather be right than interesting. If I was CEO of a company, I'd rather be right than interesting. But I'm a journalist - what journalist would rather be right than interesting?
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It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.
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There are two ways to learn anything. An interesting way and a boring way. I like the interesting way.
