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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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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J'allais sous le ciel, Muse! et j'étais ton féal.
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It is important that every bride feels comfortable in her chosen dress, and fabric choice has a big part to play in this.
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It has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running next year for release in 2008.
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I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.
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One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.
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My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes.
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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.
