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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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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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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Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my father's responsibility, and duty then counted for something.
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First and foremost, I'm a real estate person. And that's what I love the most.
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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
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I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to keep one.
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As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
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I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy. As an intelligence officer in the guise of a junior diplomat at the British Embassy in Bonn, I was a secret to my colleagues, and much of the time to myself.
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Certain type of actresses get younger instead of older. I always say, 'Only ingenues age.'
