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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I used to be into Bjork and PJ Harvey, and they used to blow my mind. But there hasn't been a pop star blowing anybody's mind.
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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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Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.
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I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me.
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The fate of the Statute of Uses is one of the most curious in legal history. Its secret and unavowed purpose, of securing the estates of the monasteries for the Crown, it accomplished. Its ostensible purpose, fortified by a wealth of hypocritical justification, it entirely failed to achieve. Not only were devises of lands, after a brief interval, put on a legal footing; but, as is well known, uses of lands as distinguished from legal estates, soon re-appeared in full vigour. Whilst in unforeseen directions, that statute worked havoc in the medieval system of conveyancing; and gradually modernized it out of existence.
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I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
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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.
