George Gershwin Quotes

All these tales of people sitting down and composing symphonies just as though they were writing a letter are very much exaggerated; at least, it isn't that way in my work.

George Gershwin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 26, 1898 - July 11, 1937

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We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

Andy Partridge

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You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Stephen Fry

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I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Ruth Wilson

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I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.

Jose Mourinho

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I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don't think that anymore.

Dolores Huerta

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I try to prove that I can be either a wide receiver or a flex tight end. Put me in the slot, put me out wide, put me wherever you want, but I can play both.

Devon Cajuste

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I always tried to raise money for the Black Panthers through business schemes.

Bobby Seale

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I believe in having total clarity around our goals. I believe in creating these goals together as a group and making sure they're aligned with Bob Iger's goals for the Walt Disney Co. And more than anything, making sure people understand that they have a responsibility to one another.

Anne Sweeney

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It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William Inge

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Political novels are full of pitfalls, particularly for a novelist with strong political leanings.

Phil Klay

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In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

Susan Orlean

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My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Tina Turner

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