Loretta Young Quotes
I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
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A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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A cat is never vulgar.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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I like sparkles; I think I'm a magpie.
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There's more things that I'd like to do. You know, each song is a little bit of a puzzle. I see most of them as just failed attempts.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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There's obviously a group who enjoys what Tyler Perry is putting out there. And why fault them? And there's a group that loves the things that Spike does. So they should enjoy that, too. Is it my taste? Maybe not, but I'm not going to fault anybody for doing what they're doing as long as people are showing up.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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Every 20 minutes you've got to have a bump, you've got to have a change in course, you've got to unsettle the audience. It can't be too predictable so something has to happen. I think that was something that Hitchcock did very well too. You couldn't let an audience feel too settled in.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.
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You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
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Anyone wishing to communicate with Americans should do so by e-mail, which has been specially invented for the purpose, involving neither physical proximity nor speech.
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Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.
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The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt - because the system is good at hiding it.
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I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
