Ethel Merman Quotes

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

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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The President's call for more math and science students is not being heeded by his party's leaders in Congress. They are cutting over $10 billion from student aide while refusing to fully fund No Child Left Behind. Something doesn't add up.

Jim Clyburn

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New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself.

Joan Didion

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I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

John Frusciante

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Honestly, I do not care about my age.

Song Hye-kyo

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I've still got a brilliant head of hair, which refuses to lay down!

Rod Stewart

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Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.

Michael Rapaport

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The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

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I try not to worry about things I can't do anything about.

Christopher Walken

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President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

Craig Kilborn

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The purity of finding the right artist, that artist that's gonna be the next hall of famer, that artist that's gonna be the next headliner, lifting people out of their seats at Madison Square Garden, that song that's gonna be sung for hundreds and hundreds of years, that essence remains the same.

Clive Davis

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My optimism holds that the good guys eventually come out on top.

Brad Feld

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Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue.

Archibald Hill

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