"I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of……" — Tallulah Bankhead
"I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'"
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46 Quotes by Tallulah Bankhead
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the…
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I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.
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Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on…
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I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as…
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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The less I behave like Whistler's mother the night before, the more I look like her the morning after.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
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I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on…
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think…
— Roger Bannister
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One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the…
— Mortimer Adler
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Feedback is the breakfast of champions.
— Ken Blanchard
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a…
— Usain Bolt
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If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
— Usain Bolt
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I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.
— Bear Bryant
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We knew that you don't get to be world champions without a struggle.
— Eric Cantona
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But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors…
— Donald Cargill
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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life…
— Muhammad Ali
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
— Jimmy Carter
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What America demands in her black champions is a brilliant, powerful body and a dull, bestial mind.
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
— Chris Evert
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