Gene Pitney Quotes
People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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Owing to the fact that leaders in the women's groups made a point of serving on the jury here whenever they were called, we have always had an unusually high type of women represented on the jury.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
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By the time you're eighty years old you've learned everything. You only have to remember it.
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People tell me all the time that I must be so sad. I never was. It's just the way I sing.
