Linda Lavin Quotes

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

Linda Lavin

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• America
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• Singing

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• I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

  

  Orson Welles
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  • Want
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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
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• The childhood poverty of both my parents and their minimal education did much to influence me and my two younger brothers in our education and career choices. One brother became a dentist and the other, a professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. degree.

  

  Ferid Murad
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• When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • America
  • Together
  • History

• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

  E. L. James
  • God
  • Women
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• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
  • America
  • You
  • Forever

• Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Parents
  • Idea
  • Saying

• The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Business
  • Guy

• God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Work
  • God
  • Satisfied

• I, for one, can't be sure at all there is a God.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • God
  • Sure

• God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • You
  • Person

• I think by the time I was born, my parents had pretty well run the gauntlet with their kids. The novelty had kind of worn off by the time the twelfth child was born. I was lucky to get fed and changed, picked up and taken to school.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• I'm not a Luddite at all. I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, 'Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don't.' I'm not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

  

  Carl Honore
  • God
  • Think
  • Works

• I pray to God I get inside a girl's head one day and see what in the WORLD they are thinking.

  

  AJ McLean
  • World
  • God
  • Thinking

• It is, I think, the very chaos of America that allowed me to prosper.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Think
  • Me

• It was about 2012, 2013. I started from zero. Small fashion shows, small photoshoots. I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot of things up close. I married my sister off; I gave jahez for her wedding. I tried to keep relations going with my family. I bought a house for them in Multan. My parents are settled in Multan; my house is there.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Up
  • Family
  • House

• People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • America
  • Hate

• I was emancipated at 15 and off to Japan on a contract working. I felt for my parents. I apologized profusely years later, but I was just very strong-willed and strong-minded and had my own idea - thought outside of the box.

  

  Jaime Pressly
  • Parents
  • Strong

• America has survived and grown stronger through September 11th and subsequent wars with Afghanistan and Iraq and those who seek to do us harm. We have faced - and met - tremendous challenges ramping up a public health and safety system to protect Americans from future threats.

  

  Christopher Bond
  • Up
  • America
  • Future

• I was very lucky with the parents I was blessed with. I don't think it could have worked out any better. They've always been so understanding of me and understanding of what I want to do.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Parents
  • Understanding
  • Blessed

• Such strains as would have won the earOf Pluto, to have quite set freeHis half-regained Eurydice.These delights, if thou canst give,Mirth, with thee, I mean to live.

  

  John Milton
  • Live

• The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

  

  Linda Lavin
  • God
  • America
  • Parents