Wayne Newton Quotes
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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I don't really believe in regrets.
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I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.
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I have been involved with the USO really my entire life. The first show I did for the USO, I was nine years old.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I love taking chances.
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There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
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After 9/11 we couldn't have had enough airplanes for the people who were volunteering to go. Now with 9/11 being as far removed as it is, the war being up one day and down the next, it becomes increasingly difficult to get people to go.
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There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.