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Alan Jay Lerner Quotes

Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.

Alan Jay Lerner

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: dramatist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1918 - June 14, 1986

Topics

Home Talent Saying Better Back Said

I love getting up to my folks' house and playing golf with Dad. He's very involved with my off-course ventures, and I talk to him every third day.

Love Day Golf House Talk Him

If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that.

Book Think Doing You Trouble Six

As the world has become more predatory and aggressive, my impression is that the investment banking business has moved from being relationship-oriented to being increasingly transaction-oriented.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Business World Investment Become

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Focus People Looking Believe Poor

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

Best Thought Care Better Patient

Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.

Funny Me Thought You White Hug

The more we engage in society, the more firsts we have, then there will be a moment when we have no more firsts. Or maybe there will always be new firsts.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Moment Society New Will More Engage

Any form of a winning record in the conference is an accomplishment.

Winning Accomplishment Conference Any

I have wanted to direct for quite some time, but I wanted to be ready and know what I am doing. I wanted to know the basics.

Time I Am Doing Ready Know Basics

There's some central relationship in every movie, and that's what stories are.

Christopher Miller

Relationship Stories Some Movie

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

Brandon Stanton

Perspective World Someone Unique

Don't tell anyone this, but I have never been to Disneyworld. I don't know if I ever will, but I would like to.

Know Will Never Tell Been Would

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