Allan Sherman Quotes
Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I have selective hearing.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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With Indian migrants all over the world, money transfer is a big business in India.
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I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.
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I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!
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Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
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“My god,” Mr. Rose was saying loud enough to ring through the crowded hallway. “What have you done?
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Even if Scrabble had been invented then, I wouldn't have wanted to play Scrabble, because the highest triple word score in the world would not have expressed how much I liked the game Natalie and I played every afternoon.
