Elaine Stritch Quotes
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.Elaine Stritch
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There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.
Ram Shriram -
Getting divorced didn't sour me on the institution of marriage. I'll tell you what I'll never do: I'll never get divorced again.
Eddie Murphy -
Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
Calvin Klein -
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
Walter Scott -
I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.
Aaron Carter -
My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
Uzo Aduba
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I like a twisted sense of humour. On 'A History of Violence,' David Cronenberg and I would be doing the grimmest scenes and laugh a lot.
Viggo Mortensen -
When I was a kid just starting out on the radio, I would always watch people. And I'd see the interest they'd have in trying to get a photo with an artist or get a ticket stub signed. I guess, to me, that's the ultimate thing – to know that what you've done is important enough to other people that they want to take a picture with you.
Eddie Trunk -
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
Major Taylor -
Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now.
Cameron Diaz -
The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.
Malin Akerman
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
Veerappa Moily -
As soon as you say that there is a community called, let's say, black Americans, you've immediately created a boundary line - who's in that group, who's outside that group.
Randall Kennedy -
It is more profitable for your congressman to support the tobacco industry than your life.
Jackie Mason -
I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?
Edmund Phelps -
I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
Iqbal Quadir
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You have to be a champion in all facets of life.
Daniel Cormier -
Just like if you were brought up on a farm, you would most likely carry on your father's business as a farmer; I was brought up in the kitchen and ended up becoming a chef.
Martin Yan -
If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
Marguerite Young -
The most obvious purpose of college education is to help students acquire information and knowledge by acquainting them with facts, theories, generalizations, principles, and the like. This purpose scarcely requires justification.
Derek Bok -
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
Amber Tamblyn -
You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
Elaine Stritch