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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There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
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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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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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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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Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.
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When I was fifteen, I became a professional musician. I got involved with people and did certain things which led me to start making records and touring. And leaving Belfast and going to London and America, one thing led to another and I got caught up in the life that I'm living now...I was very young and i followed something. (1993)
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People that are born beautiful like supermodels act like entitled a**holes. It makes you embarrassed just to see 'em. They handle beauty embarrassingly.
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I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky.
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In this day and age, you can write anywhere in the world. You can really live anywhere and have the same career.
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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.
