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Ethel Merman Quotes

Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Age Mom She Years Little Carry

I think each time you start a story or novel or whatever, you are absolutely at the bottom of the ladder all over again. It doesn't matter what you've done before.

Time Start Story Think You Ladder

Good songs are what a good band is all about. When you have a good song that stands up to the test of the time, that is the most important thing.

Good Time Song You Important Test

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

Love Him Favorite Made Liberals He

'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.

Relationship Great Think Comedy Body

In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

Education Speak Higher Education Know

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Change Change The World World Believe

I just want to redeem myself and show the world that... it wasn't a fluke that I won at nationals. I can compete on the international stage as well.

Myself World I Can Want Stage Well

Being raised in Idaho, you think everyone is poor. Then you see the wider world.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

World Think You Poor Everyone See

The girls, like, in we'll say Hooters, have less clothing than the girls I worked with in those days. We thought it was wild when they just wore little bells and so forth. But today, in restaurants, some of the waitresses almost work in the nude, you know, to get business.

Work Business Today Thought You Say

People in the CIA, they marry each other. They're like actors! We have to travel without much warning to far-flung places, and it's very hard to communicate what our experiences are like to those in the outside world.

Travel People World Places Outside

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

Mom Sister Think Living Toys Jeans

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Me Think Single Fiction Influences

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