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Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.


Tallulah Bankhead

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Never practice two vices at once.
MIKE BINDER I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enc...
SADA THOMPSON Tallulah never bored anyone, and I consider that humanitarianism of a very high order indeed.
ANITA LOOS No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could r...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic and the other...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work -- th...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull ...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I'm as pure as the driven slush.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a d...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD It's the good girls who keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any ...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make a...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER Rule number one of investing: Never lose money. Rule number two: Never forget rule number one.
WARREN BUFFETT What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country.
HOWARD DIETZ Never trust a man without vices...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The rule on staying alive as a forecaster is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give...
JANE BRYANT QUINN There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once
KEN VENTURI Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars ...
THORNTON WILDER I would recommend books weigh between two and three pounds.
FRANK EDWARDS We never like the smell of our own vices in other people, Holmes. Ah, let's steer here for a drink o...
MATTHEW PEARL What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA There are no real start-overs, only start-from-heres.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.
UNKNOWN The big rule is that you must never get mixed up with a married man - never even look sideways at an...
LAUREN BACALL When I was a small boy, my father told me never to recommend a church or a woman to anyone. And I ha...
EDMUND G. LOVE Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.
ROBERT SMITH [Two other books I recommend are] What I Learned from Jackie Robinson ... Voices of Summer.
CARL ERSKINE Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
TAMMY FAYE BAKKER I would never recommend losing on a bye, so that one definitely stays with you.
DAN QUINN How can I be in two places at once?
JAKE WILLIAMS How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?
BOYLE ROCHE We've never played (a triangle-and-two) in a game, not once.
TOM MCLOUGHLIN Multitasking? I can't even do two things at once. I can't even do one thing at once.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER Vices are character traits. Sins are specific acts of commission or omission. Once Judaism and Chris...
SOLOMON SCHIMMEL Yeah, he can shoot like that. He does that in practice all the time. Once he hit his first two, I kn...
BRUCE DURHAM Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
WARREN BUFFETT Rule No. 1 : Never lose money. Rule No. 2 : Never forget Rule No. 1.
WARREN BUFFETT I want to be two people at once. One runs away.
PETER HELLER Nevermore," Lolli said. "That's what Luis calls it, because there are three rules: Never more than o...
HOLLY BLACK Monetary economists have not yet developed a formal rule that is likely to have better operating pro...
WILLIAM POOLE If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN I have two rules:
First, I'm never wrong.
Second, if I'm wrong...back to the first rule."<...
TSUGUMI OHBA, DEATH NOTE Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.
JOHN LOCKE My rule is never to look at anything on the Internet.
EMILIA CLARKE Most consumer advocates recommend, for a cable company, you want to call once every six months and n...
AVIYA KUSHNER I never had a problem shooting the ball since I began shooting at a young age. Dribbling and defense...
BRANDON MOTON If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some...
CHARLES DARWIN I highly recommend that anyone who's never seen (a sled dog race) should come see the start of it.
BUCK POTTER We had data of a year ago, spring practice, the preseason practice and the first two games ... now w...
JIM TRESSEL I would not recommend that we go for two-thirds this year. I'm not sure it's a possibility to get th...
CINDY CHAVEZ I played trumpet for about two weeks. Sixth grade. And I didn't practice. Maybe a little longer ...
WENDELL PIERCE The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another
WILLIAM HAZLITT I believe in practicing prudence at least once every two or three years.
MOLLY IVINS I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices,...
CHARLES DICKENS I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
MARK TWAIN I would never recommend going on a crash diet. Drastically reducing your calorie intake can cause nu...
RANVEER SINGH The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
THOMAS BROWNE The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.
THOMAS EDWARD BROWN I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once ...
DAPHNE OZ You can never practice those types of situations like tonight. You can never say we're within three,...
DIRK GOSDA You cannot forgive just once, forgiveness is a daily practice.
SONIA RUMZI 1. Never tell everything at once.
KEN VENTURI He who hunts two hares at once, catches neither
PROVERB Yesterday's practice felt like I've been here for two years. The team chemistry is great. ... I'm a ...
SEIMONE AUGUSTUS You wait years for a win and then two come along at once.
DAVID KNOX I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
ARTHUR DOYLE I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never will be slaves.
JAMES THOMSON Once it's game day, once I'm on that practice field, once I step into the stadium, everything else i...
ROBIN HORTON To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for th...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Rule number one: The customer is always right. Rule number two: If the customer is wrong, see rule n...
STEVE LEONARD Never once when gazing at the sky wasn't I in awe and wondering.
JONATHAN CHEN Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
BUDDY RICH Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in hi...
ROBERT BURTON To do two things at once is to do neither.
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TALLULAH BANKHEAD Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a di...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make a...
TALLULAH BANKHEAD They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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