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Preston Sturges Quotes

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character.

Preston Sturges

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1898 - August 6, 1959

Topics

Character Men Man I Am Interesting

I think that she's a great dame. I'm crazy for Lucille.

Jessica Walter

Great Crazy Think She I Think Dame

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

John Oates

Parents Singing Musicians Old Two

Unlike my grandfather or my brother, I've actually been able to make some money at a racetrack.

John Malkovich

Money Brother Grandfather Been Able

Sugary drinks are blamed for increasing the rates of chronic disease and obesity in America. Yet efforts to reduce their consumption through taxes or other measures have gone nowhere. The beverage industry has spent millions defeating them.

Robert Reich

America Obesity Taxes Gone Industry

The monied interests are doing what they do best - making money. The rest of us need to do what we can do best - use our voices, our vigor, and our votes.

Robert Reich

Best Money Rest Making Money Doing

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Anita Elberse

You Product Resources Everyone Get

I always knew I wanted to run a business someday.

Michael Dell

Business Run Always Someday Knew

This and many others only confirmed me in the opinion, planted when I saw the sale of Martha Ann, and growing steadily thereafter, that slavery was an accursed business, and that the sooner my people were relieved of it, the better.

John Sergeant Wise

Business People Me Slavery Opinion

The loss of courtship in modern days - like, people don't court anybody anymore. There's no beauty about it.

Sofia Vassilieva

Beauty People Loss Days Modern Like

I didn't know how to dance, so I just jumped up and down and bashed people. Then everybody else started doin' it, but they didn't get it right, so I quit.

Sid Vicious

Dance People Down Know Quit Right

If you think about it, there's very little about young families on TV, and yet there's so many of them.

Ruth Bradley

Think You Young Little TV Many

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

Royston Drenthe

Confidence Me Lose Something Going