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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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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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.
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By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.
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When I was a model - and I was all during high school and college - you always wanted to be on the cover of a magazine. That's how your success was judged. The more cover, the better.
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I exist in a world that's pretty gruesome. All I can tell you is this: I'm trying to keep my balance.
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A lady asked Franklin: 'Well, Doctor, what have we got-a Republic or a Monarchy?'. Franklin replied: 'A Republic, if you can keep 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.
