Elaine Stritch Quotes

I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

Elaine Stritch

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• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
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• I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Feelings

• Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Democracy
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• So you've decided to travel around the world. This is an excellent thing to do. It's a precious place, this planet. We should see it.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
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• I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.

  

  Dan Fogler
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• Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

  

  Edna Ferber
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• It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Work
  • Different
  • Important

• A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Strong
  • Single
  • Strength

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
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  • Welfare

• Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
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• I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.

  

  Fat Joe
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• The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

  

  Sam Mendes
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• In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
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• Once I finished 'Eileen,' I wanted to write more novels. I don't see myself stopping any time soon.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
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• There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
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• I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra.

  

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• The Marine Corps has been, and will continue to be, America's Expeditionary Force in Readiness - ready to respond to today's crisis, with today's Marine forces, today.

  

  James F. Amos
  • America
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• Having an interview in English is difficult for me, but acting in English is much harder. Because when I'm acting in English, if someone points out bad pronunciation or accent, I cannot focus on my emotions anymore, so it was very hard.

  

  Lee Byung-hun
  • Bad
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• the full analysis of the notions of saying something and understanding what one said inevitably involves a concept which, as I will show in detail, essentially corresponds to the Cartesian idea of thought.

  

  Zeno Vendler
  • Understanding

• Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.

  

  George Ritzer
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• I compare Stephen Sondheim with humor, because humor is unanalyzable. You can't analyze humor. You just have to get through it.

  

  Elaine Stritch