Graffito: "To Be Is To Do" "To Do Is To Be" "Do Be Do Be Do"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for your responses DAD and Wilson. It is interesting, I think,
that sometimes a major personality will be linked to a signature
statement / vocalization that is inaccurate or distorted:

Cary Grant: Judy, Judy, Judy.
James Cagney: You dirty rat.

Cary Grant actually did say "Judy, Judy, Judy" as recorded in the
following youtube clip from the 1980s. But his full statement was "I
never said Judy, Judy, Judy".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6qPnjcZKC8

In Sinatra's case, DAD notes that sometimes he did say "Doobie Doobie Doo".

A theme of the Quote Investigator website is the fraught relationship
between the public perception of quotations and the written record.
Garson


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 7:04 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:01 PM, David A. Daniel <dad at pokerwiz.com> wrote:
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>> the public's perception of what he was saying was Doobie Doobie Doo.
>> For one thing, there would have been no joke otherwise. Check this out.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3ksf3Oe8cU. If it is what the marketing
>> folks at Budweiser picked up on, you can bet it was the popular
>> interpretation, whether or not such interpretation was always accurate.
>>
>
> I could not have phrased it better, myself. ;-)
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