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"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."
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"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."
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"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."
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"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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"Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed."
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"If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill."
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"I wouldn't trust any man as far as you can throw a piano."
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"I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them."
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"At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn't think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven't had a cigarette since."
Time
"My father taught me to read music and play the piano-but not well, even though people have said that I'm a natural musician."
Music
"Legend has it that when God created me, he gave me a big distinctive voice, a lot of boldness and no heart."
God
"I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people."
People
"Mom claimed that I could carry a tune at 2 or 3 years of age. Maybe she was a little prejudiced."
Mom
"There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman."
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"My beloved Mom and Pop always rated tops with each other, and that's the way it will always be."
Mom
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