Dinah Shore Quotes

#1. Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it's totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

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#2. Trouble is part of your life

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#3. When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

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#4. I owe everything - my success and happiness - to men.

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#5. My tastes are eclectic.

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#6. Trouble is a part of life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough.

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#7. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

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#8. I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

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#9. When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don't think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

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#10. I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me.

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#11. Emmys are wonderful and I'm thrilled to death that I have mine. But they're representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you've grown in your own industry.

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#12. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing.

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#13. Trouble is a part of your life
if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

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#14. It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

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#15. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.

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#16. I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.

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#17. The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

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#18. I'm not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.

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#19. In country music the lyric is important and the melodies get a little more complex all the time, and you hear marvelous new singers who are interested in writing and interpreting a lyric and in all form of popular music.

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#20. I'd like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

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#21. It's the most humbling sport ever. It's like a lousy lover. It's like some guy who's never there when you need him. Every once in a while, he comes and makes you feel like heaven on earth.. And then the moment you say, 'I really need this,' he's gone.

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#22. Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

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