Irving Berlin Quotes

After you get what you want you don't want it.
Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
Irving Berlin

I got lost but look what I found.
Irving Berlin

Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
Irving Berlin

Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
Irving Berlin

Never hate a song that's sold a half million copies.
Irving Berlin

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.
Irving Berlin

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success.
Irving Berlin

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Irving Berlin

There's no business like show business.
Irving Berlin

There's no people like show people.
Irving Berlin

You're not sick you're just in love.
Irving Berlin

Milton Berle Quotes

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours.
Milton Berle

Anytime a person goes into a delicatessen and orders a pastrami on white bread, somewhere a Jew dies.
Milton Berle

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.
Milton Berle

I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?
Milton Berle

I live to laugh, and I laugh to live.
Milton Berle

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.
Milton Berle

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
Milton Berle

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle

Laughter is an instant vacation.
Milton Berle

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient.
Milton Berle

The company accountant is shy and retiring. He's shy a quarter of a million dollars. That's why he's retiring.
Milton Berle

We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.
Milton Berle

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think.
Milton Berle

Daisy Berkowitz Quotes

But the exposure we got by doing the stint with Nine Inch Nails brought us a lot of attention.
Daisy Berkowitz

Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
Daisy Berkowitz

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.
Daisy Berkowitz

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
Daisy Berkowitz

I have about nine guitars in all, so obviously I'm into collecting.
Daisy Berkowitz

I just saw metal as another tool for me to use.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'd played in about four or five bands before we started up, only a couple of which did club dates.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm happy with the way everyone presents themselves onstage.
Daisy Berkowitz

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.
Daisy Berkowitz

If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz

It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
Daisy Berkowitz

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.
Daisy Berkowitz

It's like tabloid news programs that talk about how horrible something is, while at the same time they're glorifying it as their top story.
Daisy Berkowitz

Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.
Daisy Berkowitz

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.
Daisy Berkowitz

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
Daisy Berkowitz

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.
Daisy Berkowitz

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
Daisy Berkowitz

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
Daisy Berkowitz

Shelley Berkley Quotes

For the Department of Energy to conduct this investigation is like the fox watching the hen house.
Shelley Berkley

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed.
Shelley Berkley

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.
Shelley Berkley

There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need.
Shelley Berkley

Elizabeth Berkley Quotes

I had to make some drastic choices to avoid losing myself.
Elizabeth Berkley

I had to work out where I was going, what type of films I wanted to make. For that reason, I decided to choose independent productions, less important roles, and I tried theater, too.
Elizabeth Berkley

Xander Berkeley Quotes

Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
Xander Berkeley

I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
Xander Berkeley

I don't look too far ahead.
Xander Berkeley

I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing.
Xander Berkeley

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.
Xander Berkeley

It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
Xander Berkeley

Busby Berkeley Quotes

I wanted to make people happy, if only for an hour.
Busby Berkeley

Peter Bergman Quotes

I do like large entrances, but this was a little too large.
Peter Bergman

She said, and I'm not kidding, 'Is this a speaking role?' I wasn't quite sure how to answer that one.
Peter Bergman

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.
Peter Bergman

When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
Peter Bergman

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.
Peter Bergman

Michael Bergin Quotes

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.
Michael Bergin

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.
Michael Bergin

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
Michael Bergin

I began to believe the fairy tales: You know, how we're all out there looking for our magical missing half.
Michael Bergin

I didn't know a damn thing about style.
Michael Bergin

I guess that's what I was: a set of abs. And they lit the abs and shot the abs and sent the abs on their way. The photographer didn't look at my face once. I was humiliated.
Michael Bergin

I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward.
Michael Bergin

I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.
Michael Bergin

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.
Michael Bergin

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
Michael Bergin

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.
Michael Bergin

I was going to get the Carolyn Bessette story out of her one way or another.
Michael Bergin

I wasn't even 20 at the time, but it taught me something about drugs. They can take a good man, a warm, funny, loving family man, and turn him into a loser and worse.
Michael Bergin

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.
Michael Bergin

I'd gone to Manhattan to become a model.
Michael Bergin

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.
Michael Bergin

My father was a sergeant with the Connecticut state police. My mother was a hairstylist.
Michael Bergin

New York is tough on lonely people.
Michael Bergin

Thank God for little miracles, right?
Michael Bergin

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.
Michael Bergin

Henry Bergh Quotes

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.
Henry Bergh

Tom Bergeron Quotes

I don't mind talking about my two daughters, but I don't feel comfortable denying them their privacy.
Tom Bergeron

I work best when people are here to puncture me.
Tom Bergeron

I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game.
Tom Bergeron

Some people come in and really freak. There's movement everywhere, even a dancing housekeeper!
Tom Bergeron

We're improvising a lot of this, which amazes people.
Tom Bergeron

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back.
Tom Bergeron

Thomas Berger Quotes

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
Thomas Berger

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Thomas Berger

Sandy Berger Quotes

There's been a deliberate and systematic effort to convey to countries around the world, friends and foes, that if they cross the United States there's a price to pay.
Sandy Berger

Philip E. Berger Quotes

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.
Philip E. Berger

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
Philip E. Berger

Phil Berger Quotes

It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to the health system.
Phil Berger

Peter Berger Quotes

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.
Peter Berger

Arthur Berger Quotes

Sometimes you know you find precious things in the creative process that you couldn't find out of it.
Arthur Berger

Edgar Bergen Quotes

After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
Edgar Bergen

But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen

Hey kid, do you want to come and talk to Charlie?
Edgar Bergen

I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
Edgar Bergen

I've never told you the story of Alice in Wonderland, have I?
Edgar Bergen

Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
Edgar Bergen

OK, magic boy, let's see who you really are.
Edgar Bergen

Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
Edgar Bergen

So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
Edgar Bergen

Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
Edgar Bergen

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
Edgar Bergen

Candice Bergen Quotes

At an age when most actresses are being phased out, I am being phased in - with a vengeance.
Candice Bergen

Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
Candice Bergen

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
Candice Bergen

But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
Candice Bergen

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans.
Candice Bergen

Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
Candice Bergen

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention.
Candice Bergen

I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
Candice Bergen

I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
Candice Bergen

I couldn't hold it together today. George Clooney asked me if I was OK, and I practically collapsed. I couldn't stop crying, I had to go off sobbing like an idiot.
Candice Bergen

I didn't have a financial need, and I wasn't very gifted at relationships. I probably was more like what we think of boys as being: hard to pin down and wary of commitment.
Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
Candice Bergen

I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Candice Bergen

I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
Candice Bergen

I have never savored life with such gusto as I do now.
Candice Bergen

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
Candice Bergen

I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
Candice Bergen

I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen

I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
Candice Bergen

Michael Bergdahl Quotes

At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.
Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton instilled ownership of the products in the stores into the collective consciousness of every associate regardless of what job they did for the company.
Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
Michael Bergdahl

Sam Walton's values are: treat the customer right, take care of your people, be honest in your dealings, pass savings along to the customer, keep things simple, think small, control costs and continuously improve operations.
Michael Bergdahl

Servant leadership is the foundation and the secret of Sam Walton's ability to achieve team synergy.
Michael Bergdahl

The key to competing and surviving against Wal-Mart is to focus your business into a niche or pocket where you can leverage your strengths in the local marketplace.
Michael Bergdahl

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution.
Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
Michael Bergdahl

Wal-Mart's success strategies and tactics are easy to understand yet hard to duplicate.
Michael Bergdahl

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.
Michael Bergdahl