Calvin Coolidge Quotes
You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
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My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
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Nobody has approached me about an offer to work in India. However, I can categorically state that if they did so, I would refuse immediately.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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My parents divorced when I was very, very young, but they maintained an incredibly amicable relationship. They were great partners, they were great parents, and they were great friends throughout my whole life until I was about 25, at which point they realized that they could relinquish; they could call it and move on.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I used to always run off at the mouth and talk about people. I just didn't know that it would make a living for me.
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.
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Canada is a big part of my life.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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Occasionally there is a moment in a person's life when he takes a great stride forward in wisdom, humility, or disillusionment. For a split second he comes into a kind of cosmic understanding. For a trembling breath of time he knows all there is to know. He is loaned the gift the poet yearned for - seeing himself as others see him.
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My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'
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Helping men express feelings starts with understanding why men don’t express them.
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
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Well, I don't play heroes obviously. I never played the guy who gets the girl. It might be interesting to do a part where I was a father in a functional family.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
