Lawrence Welk Quotes
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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You may have heard of the Slow Movement, which challenges the canard that faster is always better. You don't have to ditch your career, toss the iPhone, or join a commune to take part. Living 'Slow' just means doing everything at the right speed - quickly, slowly, or at whatever pace delivers the best results.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I don't mind doing the green-screen stuff at all, and in fact it's a lot like black-box theater, which I did plenty of in New York.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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Respect goes a long way when you carry yourself a certain way and show manners when you first meet someone. If you do that, then it's hard for somebody not to like you.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.
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'Well, yes, surely I think everybody ought to enjoy life as much as it's humanly possible because that's why we exist. I believe.'
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We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of us.
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However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
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His act may start out slow, but it tapers off.
