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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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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There is no reason at all why there aren't enough people to guard New Orleans and to help stabilise Baghdad.
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Watching movies in the U.S. is great fun because they get every joke, they smile, they laugh so much; it's a great feeling.
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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.
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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
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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.
