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D.H. LAWRENCE What did that Walt Disney song say? Someday my prince will come? Well, mine came alright... and I do...
D.H. STARR We all have somebody that sits down at the Thanksgiving table and says the most outrageous things, a...
VICKI LAWRENCE In spite of the Depression, or maybe because of it, folks were hungry for a good time, and an evenin...
LAWRENCE WELK My accent remained terrible. It was very hard for me to initiate any conversation with someone I did...
LAWRENCE WELK One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers...
LAWRENCE WELK Many times I wondered if I were truly carrying out God's plan for my life.
LAWRENCE WELK Sounds always fascinated me.
LAWRENCE WELK The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.
LAWRENCE WELK The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became ...
LAWRENCE WELK When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the count...
LAWRENCE WELK Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or...
LAWRENCE WELK It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.
LAWRENCE WELK For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. ...
LAWRENCE WELK Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
LAWRENCE WELK The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
LAWRENCE WELK If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.
LAWRENCE WELK This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
LAWRENCE WELK I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
LAWRENCE WELK If you put all your strength and faith and vigor into a job and try to do the best you can, the mone...
LAWRENCE WELK Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
LAWRENCE WELK One thing all stage mothers share is an overpowering ambition for their daughters.
LAWRENCE WELK I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finishe...
LAWRENCE WELK I have a tremendous desire to learn, and to grow, and to develop whatever I have that will make for ...
LAWRENCE WELK Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI The internet to me is kind of like a black hole, and I never really go on it.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.
VICKI LAWRENCE I am not a politician; I've never run for anything in my life. I'm an economist. I'm a b...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW The E.U.'s tax and regulatory policies, climate-change and welfare spending, and free immigratio...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Wars breed unfairness, just as they breed collateral damage.
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happi...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large ...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW We all know him: everybody has an Archie Bunker in their family, so you love to laugh at him, and yo...
VICKI LAWRENCE There is a natural partnership between State and Commerce, and the American business community to wo...
LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've sta...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were real...
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