Our choir director would always have us sing the slow, serious songs. You know, the songs that have an important message.


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Perhaps I have managed some sort of longevity because I haven't won the lead roles. I don't ...
SELMA BLAIR
I don't have the pressure of being a world-famous bombshell that has detonated.
SELMA BLAIR
We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism...
JOHN BLAIR
Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that y...
SANDY BLAIR
The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The f...
ROBERT BLAIR
Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
ROBERT BLAIR
Ask me my three priorities for Government, and I tell you: education, education and education.
TONY BLAIR
If you delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, you overcharge the morrow with a burden wh...
HUGH BLAIR
I believe Mrs. Thatcher's emphasis on enterprise was right.
TONY BLAIR
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
HUGH BLAIR
My parents put skates on me at age 2, the way it should be if you're serious, and I've always liked ...
BONNIE BLAIR
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and ...
HUGH BLAIR
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
HUGH BLAIR
What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.
HUGH BLAIR
The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.
HUGH BLAIR
Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff.
ROBERT BLAIR
Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: ...
ROBERT BLAIR
Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at...
ROBERT BLAIR
When it draws near to witching time of night.
ROBERT BLAIR
Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and...
HUGH BLAIR
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties
HUGH BLAIR
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is ...
TOM BLAIR
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with be...
ROBERT BLAIR
I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sittin...
LINDA BLAIR
I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situat...
JAYSON BLAIR
It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind.
LINDA BLAIR
It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.
BONNIE BLAIR
I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3,...
BLAIR UNDERWOOD
By nature, I am a unifier. I am a builder of consensus. I don't believe in sloppy compromise. Bu...
TONY BLAIR
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
TONY BLAIR
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
HUGH BLAIR
The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets...
TONY BLAIR
My legs tightened up pretty much, and it was a hard last corner for me.
BONNIE BLAIR
Apolo is going to have to keep skating so he can add more gold to his entourage.
BONNIE BLAIR
This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
BONNIE BLAIR