Les Baxter Quotes
I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
Frances Beinecke
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
Taraji P. Henson
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
Dana Perino
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Eden Phillpotts
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
Eddie Marsan
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
Patrick Henry
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
Yves Behar
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By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime.
Edward Livingston
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I do not make secrets from my years, and probably it’s good. Since people give me much less than there really is.
Ornella Muti
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
Jack Horner
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Everybody thinks that an important book has to be a big, long book.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
Les Baxter
