Tallulah Bankhead Quotes
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the crowd. I did the three songs I had recorded and got out. It was the worst day of my life.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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Nobody can make a putt that breaks to the right. It's unnatural. Unless you're left-handed, of course. Standing over a putt that breaks to the right can actually make you dizzy. I've long thought that right-breaking putts are a major contributor to mental and physical ill health.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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There was a period where I was a little scared that I'd blown my chance.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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The migratory phenomenon exists, and Europe will have to face it together. The only alternative is a 'beggar-thy-neighbor' solution, in which countries try to load the problem off on their neighbors.
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In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
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You can't have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.
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Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
