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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A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.
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You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'
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For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.
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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.
