Elaine Stritch Quotes

I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
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• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.

  

  Landon Donovan
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• Growing up in San Diego, I can remember going with my brother to see bands like Pennywise and NOFX - good punk bands that were fast and tight.

  

  Vic Fuentes
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• I was a mixture of a country boy and a town boy, really. Chichester is a town on the coast of England, and I grew up all along that strip of coast that Chichester branches out into. Sometimes I was living in a house in the country, and sometimes I was living in a town.

  

  Ed Speleers
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• It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
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• The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• The hippocampus helps record both types of memories initially, and it helps retain them for the medium term. The hippocampus also helps us access old personal memories in long-term storage in other parts of the brain.

  

  Sam Kean
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• I've been giving back since I was a teen, handing out turkeys at Thanksgiving and handing out toys at toys drives for Christmas. It's very important to give back as a youth. It's as simple as helping an old lady across the street or giving up your seat on the bus for someone who is pregnant.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

  

  Lamar Alexander
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• The public is absolutely fascinated by aging. They don't want to get old. And you can see - read Shakespeare. Read the sonnets. They're all about aging.

  

  Cynthia Kenyon

• The fact that I was a junkie for a long time is only one slice of my own personal pie, which is made up of a lot of different slices.(Oct, 1994 interview).

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• I, Jeffrey Wright, the actor, actually signed on to the 'Westworld' Delos website. My profile came back as a Libertine, which is probably reasonably accurate.

  

  Jeffrey Wright

• It's great to have a place of my own, but I still see my family often, as we are very close.

  

  Anthony Howell
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• I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'

  

  Elaine Stritch
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