Alan Jay Lerner Quotes
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.
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People want to get to know you. I don't think America got a chance to know me in that short time.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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When I left my home to become an actress, my father didn't give me a single penny. I struggled a lot, and they had no idea what I went through. My grandfather even asked me to drop my surname when he learnt I was joining films.
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My opinion on who's wrong or who's right has nothing to do with the fact that we have to bring together people who are against each other, to transform antagonism into cooperation.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point.
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I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces.
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I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
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We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States would be a double major in Russian and French, but I have to admit that the pressure of getting through so many books spoiled reading for me.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.
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There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.
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Starting is half the battle.
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The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.
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I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas, and are still Catholic. These bishops of the Catholic churches still pray for the poor, and pray for their president who works for the poor, while the leaders of the Catholic Church only defend oligarchy.
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An Englishman's way of speaking absolutely classifies him.
