Shirley MacLaine Quotes

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Shirley MacLaine

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I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

Andre Previn

MusicExperiencePerformanceBetter

I don't operate on smokers. I tell cigarette smokers that I can operate on you, I get paid the same. And you might even do well. But it's the wrong thing to do. So I refuse to operate on you until you stop smoking.

Mehmet Oz

SmokingYouI CanWrongStopTell

The only thing the East German system taught us was that we should never do it that way again.

Angela Merkel

WayNeverSystemUsOnlyAgain

Most managers were trained to be the thing they most despise - bureaucrats.

Alvin Toffler

MostBureaucratsWereThingDespise

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

Sonya Walger

MeThinkFateMeanOwnWord

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Steven Soderbergh

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I decided to start professionally making music at about 11. I was like, 'Okay, this is something I really want to do.'

Roshon Fegan

MusicStartWantOkaySomething

I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

Lou Barlow

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Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this spell that you're under, to be part of that!

Julia Roberts

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I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties.

Lisa Madigan

LiePeopleBookToxicConCharm

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

Joyce DiDonato

HatKindOverDivaDaysWell

I went to drama school for four years at Carnegie Mellon, conservatory training before television comedy. I was doing Shakespeare and Chekov plays. It's about delivering on the promise of a $100,000 education and taking the shackles off and trying the hand at my craft. I'm thrilled with what I've seen so far.

Josh Gad

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