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
• Parents
• Singing

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

  

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

  

  Orson Welles
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• More and more parents and voters have rejected the teachers' union antiquated, top down, one-size-fits-all approach to education and continue to elect candidates who embrace reform that celebrates students and empowers parents.

  

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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'.

  

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• The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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• God forbid that women have fantasies.

  

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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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 'If we make mistakes, as we all do – don’t run from God, run to Him.'

  

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• If you're not happy about how you look, you have to question how much self-love you have.

  

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  

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• I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

  

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• Who can be sure that Jean Valjean had not been on the verge of losing heart and giving up the struggle? In loving he recovered his strength. But the truth is that he was no less vulnerable than Cosette. He protected her and she sustained him. Thanks to him she could go forward into life, and thanks to her he could continue virtous. He was the child's support and she his mainstay. Sublime, unfathomable marvel of the balance of destiny!

  

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• 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