Elaine Stritch Quotes
Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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I think I can get away, sometimes, with walking in the streets and not getting noticed. I like that. I want my work to get noticed, not me. And it's slowly getting there, which is good.
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I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
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I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.
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As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.
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Take a load off, don’t take everything so seriously. And just be happier.
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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
