Elaine Stritch Quotes
I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
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Europeans have just been better organized for genocide... Far from enjoying the prospect of taking over Europe by having babies, Europe’s Muslims are living on borrowed time...
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As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.
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Access to quality, affordable health care is particularly important here in Maine, where many of us own small businesses or are self-employed.
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I don't want to see my family all the time, and they're delighted, I'm sure, to be aware of that.
