Lynn Fontanne Quotes
Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
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Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
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The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Every child has a right to learn in an environment that is safe.
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We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.
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We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of our intelligentsia cannot be broken.
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We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
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Telling a butler how to make good tea; Warm the pot first, please, then put two heaping teaspoonfuls in the pot no bags in boiling water, and when it's in, stir it. And when it comes here, I will stir it again.
