Elaine Stritch Quotes
I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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Every relationship comes with a shelf life; that duration could be a minute or even a lifetime. If, for whatever reasons, a relationship cannot last a lifetime, contrary to what the two people imagined, then both the individuals have to be communicative and have to understand and accept the reality.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants.
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I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.
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Women are complicated. We all know that.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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Bullies always have another target.
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It's good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it's all good.
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The first thing I do when I'm shopping is touch everything to see if it's itchy. I remember my mom used to put me in the itchiest clothes ever, and I was traumatized by it, so I won't wear anything itchy now.
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Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.
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What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
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I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.
