Cole Porter Quotes

I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?

Cole Porter

• Why
• True
• Alcohol
• Champagne

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• A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.

  

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• I don't have any nicknames.

  

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• I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.

  

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• Some women are smarter than men, and some aren't. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line.

  

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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

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• I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.

  

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• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

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• I think it's natural when a team has such high expectations, under .500 halfway through the season, they're going to go after a brand new coach.

  

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• African-Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.

  

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• Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have.

  

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• I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

  

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• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

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• Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

  

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• I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • True
  • Alcohol