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I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.
Cole Porter
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Cole Porter
Age: 73 †
Born: 1891
Born: June 9
Died: 1964
Died: October 15
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Cole Albert Porter
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Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'
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All the inspiration I ever needed was a phone call from a producer.
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I ask the Lord in Heaven above / What is this thing called Love?
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There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.
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Be like the bluebird who never is blue, For he knows from his upbringing what singing can do
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Some Argentines, without means, do it, People say, in Boston , even beans do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love .
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I've got you deep in the heart of me.
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I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
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Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above. Don't fence me in. Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in Let me be by myself in the evenin' breeze And listen to the murmur of the cottonwood trees Send me off forever but I ask you please Don't fence me in
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Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.
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The world admits bears in pits do it, Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it, Let's do it, let's fall in love.
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My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a director. ... (when asked who wrote 'Some Enchanted Evening') Rodgers and Hammerstein, if you can imagine it taking two men to write one song. ... Good authors, too, who once knew better words now use only four-letter words writing prose. ... Brush up your Shakespeare and they'll all kowtow.
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In olden days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking. Now, Heaven knows, anything goes. The world has gone mad today, and good's bad today, and black's white today, and day's night today.
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Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it let's do it, let's fall in love.
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all. So, tell me why should it be true, that I get a kick out of you?
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Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?
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It was great fun, But it was just one of those things.
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Night and day you are the one, Only you beneath the moon and under the sun.
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This rule I propose, Always have an ace in the hole. Always try to arrive at Having an ace some place private . Always have an ace in the hole.
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