"I got into radio when I was eight, and I was one of the busiest child dramatic actors in America."

-- Mel Torme

#Children Quotes #America Quotes #Eight Quotes

“It's time to diet and exercise when you accept the fact that you can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time - but not while you're wearing a bathing suit.”
“A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them?”

Source : Harvey Fierstein (1987). “Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex”, Atheneum Books
“At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.”
“The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.”
“I don't want to pass because I can't stand insincerities and shams. I am just as much Negro as any of the others identified with the race.”
“There is no reason against woman's elevation, but prejudices.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

Source : "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.
“I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.”

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