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Sophie Tucker Quotes

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: entertainer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 13, 1884 - February 9, 1966

Topics

Success Business Friends Ability

In any ethical situation, the thing you want least to do is probably the right action.

Jerry Pournelle

Action You Situation Want Right Any

I'm an omniviorous reader, but I don't read what could overlap with my own work. It's like tuning a radio frequency - it's much harder to pick up if there's something else there.

John Lanchester

Work My Own Radio Up Own Something

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.

Robert Smithson

Control Prison End Result Out Up

I actually didn't grow up in New York. I grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

New York Grow New Grow Up Up Grew

I am a terrible sleeper.

I Am Terrible Am Sleeper

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

John Polkinghorne

Life Universe Earth Evolution Here

I think if you were to really peek under the hood of what got Aerosmith back again for our second life in the Eighties, you'll find out that it's exactly this, it's the willingness to take a risk.

Life Think Hood You Back Find

One of the things that's so interesting when talking to minority founders specifically is that there is really a knowledge gap in understanding what the risk-reward profile is for doing a startup.

Knowledge Interesting Doing Talking

The price of being close to the President is delivering bad news. You fail him if you don't tell him the truth. Others won't do it.

Donald Rumsfeld

Truth You Bad Price News Others

Because gender can be uncomfortable, there are easy ways to close this conversation. Some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how female apes bow to male apes - that sort of thing. But the point is this: we are not apes. Apes also live in trees and eat earthworms. We do not.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Live People Trees Uncomfortable Easy

My bacteria glow in the dark - no human being doesn't like that.

Glow Dark Human Human Being Bacteria

I am typically French.

Brigitte Bardot

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