Ethel Merman Quotes

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped - and I haven't had a cigarette since.

Ethel Merman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.

Jesse Owens

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One thing you really have to watch as a writer is getting on a soapbox or pulpit about anything. You don't want to alienate readers.

John Grisham

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Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

Robert Rainy

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For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.

John Sayles

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The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.

Amanda Lindhout

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The world has already been saved from war. The question is how Christians can and should live in a world of war as a people who believe that war has been abolished.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I've been speaking at churches for years, as well as juvenile jails, rehabs and hospitals, and I always talk about my faith. That is a declaration of my relationship with God.

Smokey Robinson

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I'd like to write a biography of Ivan the Terrible.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

Roberto Azevedo

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The Marley name resonates all around the world.

Rohan Marley

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They said VCRs would kill the movies; it didn't.

Michael Moore

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When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

Mireille Guiliano

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