Top 40 Vicki Baum Quotes

#1. What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English
SWELL and LOUSY.

Vicki Baum

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#2. There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Vicki Baum

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#3. Curious, how each one of us secretly carries his private cemetery around with him and watches it filling up with ever new graves. The last one to be our own ...

Vicki Baum

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#4. A woman who is loved always has success.

Vicki Baum

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#5. If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

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#6. To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.

Vicki Baum

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#7. Serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

Vicki Baum

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#8. When you haven't found inner meaning, you will always substitute outer performance. It's the only way to fill that void, that sense of significance - that I am significant. So almost the degree of outer performance can, in many cases, mirror the lack of inner alignment.

Richard Rohr

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#9. The seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Vicki Baum

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#10. Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

Vicki Baum

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#11. He who does not move with the times is a dead man

Vicki Baum

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#12. Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

Van Morrison

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#13. Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

Vicki Baum

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#14. Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

Anonymous

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#15. Patience is an integral part of talent.

Vicki Baum

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#16. [My mother told me:] "You must decide whether you want to get married someday, or have a career." ... I set my sights on the career. I thought, what does any man really have to offer me?

Annie Elizabeth Delany

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#17. Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.

Vicki Baum

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#18. Cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

Vicki Baum

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#19. In the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Vicki Baum

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#20. I've been in New York only a few days and I have learned only two words of your language: one is Swell, and the other is Lousy ... 'It's swell to be with you and excuse, please, my lousy English!

Vicki Baum

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#21. The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations.

Aruna Roy

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#22. There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Vicki Baum

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#23. A woman flees from temptation, but a man just crawls away from it in the cheerful hope that it may overtake him.

Helen Rowland

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#24. To be a Jew is a destiny.

Vicki Baum

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#25. when the bullets are flying and the bombs are dropping, the ability to zig and zag is far more valuable than the capacity to figure out the calibre of the bullets and what kinds of planes are flying overhead.

Robert Herjavec

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#26. A writer should always have some profession which brings him into close contact with the reality's of life.

Vicki Baum

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#27. You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

Vicki Baum

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#28. When we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.

Vicki Baum

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#29. People don't speak of hunger when they know what it is to be hungry.

Vicki Baum

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#30. Men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Vicki Baum

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#31. If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back
to you, then its yours forever. If it doesnt, then it was never
yours to begin with.

Jack Engelhard

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#32. Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Vicki Baum

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#33. We're always making everything slightly more difficult than it needs to be, aren't we?
Oh, us ...

Sara Bareilles

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#34. intent was honest, he really did want to help and he did have a lot of knowledge about antiques since he'd been running his family pawn shop for almost a decade. She knew they could trust him and she filed the information away for later in case they got desperate for money.

Leighann Dobbs

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#35. A man with money to pay for a meal can talk about hunger without demeaning himself ... But for a man with no money hunger is a disgrace.

Vicki Baum

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#36. I was growing tired of all the fussing and prevaricating, of the stolen hours and the secret rendez-vous; of the small indignities and broad discomfort that are part and parcel of adultery.

Vicki Baum

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#37. After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Charlotte Gray

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#38. Perfection bores me, in art, in music; most of all, in people. Luckily, perfection is rare.

Vicki Baum

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#39. Worries are the most stubborn habits in the world. Even after a poor man has won a huge lottery prize, he will still for months wake up in the night with a start, worrying about food and rent.

Vicki Baum

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#40. Concentration is not to try hard to watch something ... Concentration means freedom ... In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your breathing is to forget all about yourself and just to sit and feel your breathing.

Shunryu Suzuki

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