Madeline Kahn Quotes

In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.

  

  Gary Ackerman
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• I never thought I would be the oldest quarterback in the National Football League at one point, not in a million years. I never thought I would play as long as I did, either, seventeen years from start to finish, with stops in Houston, Minnesota, Seattle, and Kansas City.

  

  Warren Moon
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• Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?

  

  Daisy Ridley
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• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• I had no trouble going from radio to TV - I just thought of TV as radio with pictures.

  

  Larry King
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• Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?'

  

  Yuvraj Singh
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• I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
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• I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.

  

  Zach LaVine
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• My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
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• When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.

  

  Olivier Martinez
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• My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I like to think of myself as a storyteller.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
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• Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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• Borderline embarrassing fact: I used to have a pseudo line when I was seven called Zizzy Fashion. I love clothing, and I would eventually like to design as well as act.

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
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• It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.

  

  Brown Campbell
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• In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.

  

  Madeline Kahn
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