Doris Day quotes
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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.
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You haven't lived until you've lived with a cat.
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I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.
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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.
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I have found that when you are deeply troubled, there are things you get from the silent devoted companionship of a dog that you can get from no other source.
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Killing an animal to make a coat is sin. It wasn't meant to be, and we have no right to do it.
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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.
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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit
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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
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The one radio voice that I listened to above others belonged to Ella Fitzgerald. There was a quality to her voice that fascinated me, and I'd sing along with her, trying to catch the subtle ways she shaded her voice, the casual yet clean way she sang the words.
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I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
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I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.
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I always felt that making a living wasn't the easiest thing in the world, and I decided I was going straight ahead and try to be as uncomplicated as possible. The important thing in life is just living and loving.
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When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.
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I love to laugh.It's the only way to live. Enjoy each day-it's not coming back again!
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Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.
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Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.
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I think everything in my life has led to my animal welfare work.
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For every dollar spent on spaying and neutering now, $17 is saved and can be used for other community projects. We work with the animals and the people who love them.
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I'm not going to go around with a long face - that's a waste of time
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I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.
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I like to sing love songs.
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If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
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if you play the numbers game and become obsessed with it, as so many in Hollywood are, sooner or later you have to face the depressing fact that if you are number one the only place you can go is down.
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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
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I like Michael Buble.
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Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?
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I don't know if I want to get married again.
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I love all the shows that encourage people to love, appreciate and help animals. There are more programs about animals than ever, and that pleases me.
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I am deeply grateful to the President and to my country. ... To come from Cincinnati, Ohio, for God's sake, then to go to Hollywood, and to get this kind of tribute from my country. ... I love this country so much.
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I just feel so fortunate and so blessed to have been able to entertain people in the theatres and on record, it's just an amazing life that I've experienced.
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A woman gains status when she refuses to see anything killed to be put on her back. Then she’s truly beautiful.
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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.
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It has been said that the body is like an automobile - it's yours, but it isn't you.
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I've been through everything. I always said I was like those round-bottomed circus dolls — you know, those dolls you could push down and they'd come back up? I've always been like that. I've always said, No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I'm going to come right back up.
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I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.
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I've just always loved animals.
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If I can do it, you can do it. Anybody can.
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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.
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I don't even like parties.
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If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?
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If there is a heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.
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DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants, the theater. What am I missing? RITTER: If you hove to ask, believe me, you're missing it.
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in the press, my sex life was something else again. I was Lady Bountiful of the Sheets. Some of the best fiction of the Sixties was written about my amorous adventures with an assortment of lovers who could have only been chosen by a berserk random sampler.
-- Doris Day
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