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Elaine Stritch Quotes

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: February 2, 1925 - July 17, 2014

Topics

Happiness Age You Understand Up Get

I feel the political failings of the U.S.A. are presidential in length, but the aspirant narrative of the States is millennial in length.

Feel Political Narrative I Feel

However difficult it may be to bring it about, some form of world government, with agreed international law and means of enforcing the law, is inevitable.

Government Law World Inevitable May

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

John Dalberg-Acton

Power Government People Democracy

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls

Rank Republic Grave Nor Neither

I've always thought of myself primarily as an artist; it's what I most define myself as. The acting was all an accident.

Myself Thought Artist Acting Always

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

Technology Devil Distance Person His

I don't like to photograph children as children. I like to see them as adults, as who they really are. I'm always looking for the side of who they might become.

Mary Ellen Mark

Children Looking Become Always See

If you can relate to what another person is going through while giving their experience room to be its own discrete thing, you're probably a crackerjack emergency contact.

Experience Giving You Person Room

If people want to believe that our ancestors were riding around on dinosaurs or that the protracted, increasing, and devastating warming of the Earth is just nature doing its thing - I guess I feel I have more useful battles to fight.

Michael Specter

Nature Fight People Believe Doing

Rather than go to the gym, I would prefer to do martial arts because the time goes by quicker.

Time Gym Time Goes By Go Arts Would

Many venture capitalists say they're looking for the next big idea. But they aren't, really; they're looking for something derivative, because derivative is safe.

Looking Say Next Safe Big Something

I'm human, and we all make mistakes. But just because you're knocked down, you don't have to stay down. Get up and fight.

Mistakes Fight You Down Just Because

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