"I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about."

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Source : "Say Good Night, Gracie!". Book by Susan Sackett and Cheryl Blyt, 1986.

Gracie Allen

#Thinking Quotes #Talking Quotes #Worst Quotes

“When I was a kid I respected authority, then as a teenager I gave none; in middle age I expected it; now in old age I live by the word.”
“When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.”
“I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.”
“And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind.”
“There's a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I'm obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw. And she runs into thorn bushes. And she's getting tangled up in it because she's running fast. But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won't get tangled and caught. There's something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone's chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.”
“I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.”
“Seldom do people discern eloquence under a threadbare cloak”
“The miracle of the seed and the soil is not available by affirmation; it is only available by labor.”

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