Elaine Stritch Quotes
As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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We all experience power struggles in our lives - at the workplace, with our friends, in our love lives. In a way, we're all politicians.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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When I taught, the way in which we got evaluated is what I used to call the drive-by evaluation. Somebody would come in for 20 minutes with a checklist, and that would be your evaluation. So it was clearly a snapshot.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I think the skin is the most important thing. If you take care of your skin, you don't really need much makeup.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.
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Sarah Palin is treated like a bimbo sometimes, but she has never given the public the respect they deserve. She acts silly and doesn't know stuff. She didn't even finish her term.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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The simulations show us where the hot spots are, and they show us how we should prioritize the strengthening of buildings. That's the most important thing.
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Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.
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As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.
