Mel Torme Quotes
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
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Sometimes they keep us in the dark, but it's TV, so sometimes they keep us in the dark because even they don't know yet. You know what I mean? So, it sort of develops as it goes along and according to various needs that arise.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I hate recording all the shows for the week in one day, because I want to be able to mention current events and pop culture. If Madonna punches Britney in the face today, I want to reference that on 'Wine Library TV' tomorrow. Monday's episode is always the best, because it's hot off the press.
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If you never know hardship, you can't really support people around you.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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I continue to aspire to serve Colombia as president.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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I have great teammates around me who make plays.
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It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
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I'm a huge believer in the importance of vacations for leaders, entrepreneurs, and everyone else. I work extremely hard - usually 70+ hours a week.
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'Hamlet' is the best description of grief I've read because it dramatizes grief rather than merely describing it.
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Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!
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Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
