Arthur Godfrey Quotes
I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
Quotes to Explore
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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When I started playing in bands, we had to be apologetic for what we did. We had to be apologetic because the mainstream was so bad.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Satire is a form of social control, it's what you do. It's not personal. It's a job.
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Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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I know this is rather trivial - I will not be very deep about this - but it's great when you call the hottest restaurant in town and ask for a table for five at 8:00 P.M., and they say, 'Okay,' instead of, 'You have to wait two months.'
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.
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Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
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I don't really live the bohemian life. I come to work in Midtown everyday, along with all the work-a-day folk.
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I think even in bad times it's good to keep some money going into research. And that's the purpose of the whole space program. It's not just exploration and going to see how far we can go out into space and keep people alive and bring them back, although exploration certainly has its place.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.
