A Quote by Cyd Charisse

Claude Rains is my favorite actor. He's so utterly polished and competent, no matter what he does.

Cyd Charisse

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Cyd Charisse
American - Actress
March 8, 1921 - June 17, 2008

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It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

Gloria Stuart

My favorite weather pattern happens to be when it rains mud. Dust comes through. Rain on top of it. It rains mud.

Mike Leach

What is competent? Who is it that can adjudicate what is competent or not competent? If the guys that are running the most important banks in our country aren't competent enough, well then, who is competent enough?

Edward Conard

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Julie Gonzalo

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Sergio Leone

Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.

Elinor Lipman

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Dario Argento

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Cynthia Ozick

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Jon Stewart

Students need to decide, 'All right, well, does the height matter? Does the side of it matter? Does the color of the valve matter? What matters here?' - such an underrepresented question in math curriculum.

Dan Meyer

Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

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