I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
“light up a lifetime” conveys the idea that hope can have a lasting, life-altering impact.
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I was a failed actor but I still wanted to show off, so I ended up doing live comedy.
It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills.
Nothing else in the world… not all the armies… is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.
Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion.
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.
For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
When I was about 15… I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
The Rubicons which women must cross, the sex barriers which they must breach, are ultimately those that exist in their own minds.
Rodgers and Hammerstein didn’t mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to ‘jump at the sun.’ We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything.
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