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What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.


Calvin Coolidge

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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