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.
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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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Theosophy blesses the world; Theology is its curse.
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During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
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Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
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To create a beautiful thing with unlimited money is easy!
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I don't spend money on anything. I don't collect anything. I don't spend it on furniture.
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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.
