Mel Torme Quotes
I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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NASA should start thinking about this planet.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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You need to have people within your own party that have the wherewithal to stand up to you.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I have no big career plan. It is better for me that way.
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When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
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If I'd been bright, I'd have realized that I was horribly uncomfortable, amazingly frustrated, and like any sensible person, I'd have quit. But it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be successful eventually.
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I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.
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As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
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We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.
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As a fighter pilot I know from my own experiences how decisive surprise and luck can be for success, which in the long run comes only to the one who combines daring with cool thinking.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
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My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.
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I was a singer professionally when I was four years old, and I did not really begin to play any instrument - the first one, of course, was drums - till I was about nine years old.
