Kate Smith Quotes

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

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• Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • People
  • Painting
  • Drawing

• I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Interesting
  • Taken
  • Regret

• If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Me
  • Film
  • Try

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.

  

  Irving Paul Lazar
  • Money
  • Enjoy
  • Making Money

• I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • Like
  • Take
  • Beast

• One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Christian
  • Values

• I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

  

  Vince Carter
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Need

• I have fabulous children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Fabulous

• But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us that what was good for our father was good for us - he would make more money; therefore, we'd be able to get better educations.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Good
  • Family
  • Money

• When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Different
  • Everything
  • Economy

• Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • You
  • Tough

• Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Rock
  • Find
  • Piano

• Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Time
  • Spirit
  • Genius

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

  

  Abdurrahman Wahid
  • Important
  • Culture
  • Islam

• I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Music
  • Love
  • Rice

• And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Politics
  • Punishment
  • Plagiarized

• Pollution is a serious one. Water pollution, air pollution, and then solid hazardous waste pollution. And then beyond that, we also have the resources issue. Not just water resources but other natural resources, the mining resources being consumed, and the destruction of our ecosystem.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Water
  • Serious
  • Air

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

  

  W. H. Murray
  • Chance
  • Hesitancy
  • Drawback

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Chance
  • First
  • Second Chance