Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.


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Las Vegas honors women - Celine Dion, Bette Midler, Britney Spears. I love that Las Vegas celebrates...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Keri Russell is one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen in my life. She's one of those gir...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I'm so vain, all I could think was I should have stopped at 'American Pie.'
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The British boys really, really go nuts... to them, an older woman is sexy, and it's an incredib...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I live in New Orleans part of the year, and it's a really fun eating town. I bought two homes th...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
A man's ability to haggle is never a turn-on. The only thing less romantic than how much you pai...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
The month of September is Women in Jazz, so I'm doing jazz there in September. I'm in for th...
RITA COOLIDGE
Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I went out with seven actors in a row. There are problems with that. I've had the really good-lo...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I do have to say, there is this incredible benefit to being older. I never thought I'd say that....
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I don't know what I am. I guess you can call me a character actor in the sense that I'll nev...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.
RITA COOLIDGE
Jazz radio is not very friendly to pop singers who decide to make a jazz record. But a lot of people...
RITA COOLIDGE
I wanted to make a jazz record. I didn't want it to be a standards record.
RITA COOLIDGE
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It&#...
RITA COOLIDGE
I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.
RITA COOLIDGE
There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So p...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Werner Herzog, when I auditioned for 'Bad Lieutenant,' he had never seen any of my films. He...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached ...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
To be honest, sometimes I'm horrified because you don't really know what you look like. If I...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I'm not a prude.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, w...
RITA COOLIDGE
I think you have to have a jazz pedigree to be on jazz radio.
RITA COOLIDGE
I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I am allergic to a certain kind of glue. Most eyelash glues are terrible, the glue in acrylic nails....
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I hate Spanx.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I have been able to sniff out a phony.
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I was the cocktail waitress, and Sandra Bullock was the host, and this guy came in and persuaded me ...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE
I think we still need to see more before I'm convinced we turned the corner. This earnings season wa...
PETER COOLIDGE
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN
The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
CALVIN KLEIN
To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London...
CALVIN HARRIS
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes...
JOHN CALVIN
I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. an...
CALVIN HARRIS