Doris Day Quotes

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Doris Day

Profession : Actress

Birth : April 3, 1922

I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

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Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

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Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty.

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Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.

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Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

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I'm tired of being thought of as Miss Goody Two-Shoes... the girl next door, Miss Happy-Go-Lucky.

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When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked 'Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.'

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I never retired.

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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

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Wrinkles are hereditary. Parents get them from their children.

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If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

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Any girl can look glamorous... just stand there and look stupid.

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I like to sing love songs.

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I had a wonderful family including my aunts, uncles and cousins but they've all gone to heaven.

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I've just always loved animals.

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When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

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I like Michael Buble.

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I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

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I'm going to do as much as I can for the animal world, and I'll never stop.

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I don't even like parties.

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