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Ethel Merman Quotes

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 16, 1908 - February 15, 1984

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Fire Cake Feel Ice You Old

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Nature Think Thinking Kind Anything

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

Government Mistake People Believe

Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry.

Knowledge Forward New Depend Carry

A country is more than an economy. We're a civic society.

Society Country More Economy Civic

One of the least arduous but most productive of gardening jobs, the magic of deadheading never fails to delight me. It was a revelation when the principle was explained to me: that flowers are the attempt by the plant to reproduce itself. So if you cut the heads off before the flower turns into seeds, the plant will continue to flower.

Flower Gardening Flowers Me Seeds

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

Football Talking You Television See

There were days I forgot my school clothes, and I would actually go to school with skating tights and a little skirt. It's very embarrassing... I definitely had to be comfortable in my own skin, and my mom taught me that.

School Me Mom Clothes Skin Go

We didn't take the words of Vladimir Lenin seriously until Communism spread across the globe. And unfortunately, the president didn't take the words of groups like ISIS seriously until they established a sweeping self-proclaimed Islamic Caliphate.

Words Communism Seriously President

When I hit the scene, there was Billy Connolly and Max Boyce. It was all mother-in-law and Irish jokes, and we broke the mould. Now there are thousands of comedians out there, and I don't think I can be above it all.

Think I Can Mother-In-Law Now Irish

Racial segregation has come back to public education with a vengeance.

Education Back Public Education Come

Long before I achieved financial success and became the subject of a Hollywood film, I was a veteran, a single father, and a working person who was homeless.

Success Father Homeless Financial

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

Football You Predict Never Happen

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