"that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery"

-- Ernest Hemingway

#Discovery Quotes #Fiesta Quotes #Should Quotes

“Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.”
“Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.”
“If you have to choose one critical ingredient of success, it's passion.”
“In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.”
“I also think it was important for me and Freddie to be able to have a lot of time to share our lives at the beginning of our marriage rather than my coming home at 9 or 10 at night from the set. Things have really worked out for the best for both of us.”
“Don't go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.”
“Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.”
“I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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