Fanny Brice Quotes
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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You want private education for your students? No problem whatsoever; pay for it.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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People are very ready to criticize other people's accents. There's no correlation between accents and intelligence or accents and criminality, but people do make judgments.
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All people, even one's own children, come with baggage. When they're little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.
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As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is therefore part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier, than we found it.
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I'm a southern gentleman.
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Art should be as inclusive as possible. That's why I like bringing the low form of puppetry and elevating it into a sculpture form, but it's still a puppet also.
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Wrong is for other people.
