Allan Sherman Quotes
Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema.
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life.
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The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
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I'm very into dresses, shoes, and makeup.
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Conservatism and old fogeyism are totally different things; the motto of one is "Prove all things and hold fast that which is good" and of the other "Prove nothing but hold fast that which is old."
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The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn't get written because someone knocked on the door.
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Adultery - which is the only grounds for divorce in New York - is not grounds for divorce in California. As a matter of fact, adultery in Southern California is grounds for marriage.
