Mel Torme Quotes

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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• Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.

  

  Oleg Cassini
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• God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Work
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• Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.

  

  Fidel Castro
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  • End
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• Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
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• I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • People
  • Eating
  • Cook

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.

  

  Dan Gable
  • People
  • Stay
  • Valleys

• The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • People
  • May
  • Career

• The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Intellectual

• In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Done
  • Just
  • Collective

• I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Meditation
  • Lot
  • Hippie

• Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to humans but none of which that are unique to language. Coming together they make language possible. But the fundamental building block of language is community.

  

  Daniel Everett
  • Together
  • Community
  • Unique

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Trying
  • Food
  • Famous

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song

• I've always been attracted to action stuff.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Action
  • Always
  • Attracted

• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Moment
  • Memorable
  • Boston

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Live-action has always been my focus and my passion. I love voice-over, and I definitely could see myself doing some voice-over, as much as I could, and even if I ended up doing only that for the rest of my life, and I could be successful at it, that would be great. But I think my real dream is to do films and live-action films.

  

  Jeremy Shada
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

  

  Edward Norton

• My grandfather, Harry, died when my dad was in his early 20s, so I never met him. Amazingly, he was 6ft tall. That gene definitely never filtered down to me!

  

  Jamie Cullum
  • Dad

• We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Hurt

• Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

  

  Mel Torme
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Dad