Men die but an idea does not.
ALAN JAY LERNERYouth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
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A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn’t sleep on Monday nights.
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Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here, but it sounds better in French.
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Mud can make you prisoner and the plains can make you dry.
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You will follow every mountain, sea and shore, You will see from far and near a world you’ve never seen before.
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It’s not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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I could have danced all night!
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There’s a smile on my face for the whole human race.
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Just look at it. No wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother.
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Why can’t the English teach their children how to speak?
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The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.
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If you can’t paint in Paris, you’d better give up and marry the boss’s daughter.
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A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.
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I could have spread my wings and done a thousand things I’ve never done before.
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