Mel Torme Quotes
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
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I think there is no reason for us to bring to Islamism or political Islam the fear and ignorance of Western commentators and their hysterical vocabulary.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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The question for politicians here is fundamental: You can read the polls, or you can change the polls. Stand up on the things you believe in.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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Hi, I'm Nadine Velazquez, and my green tip is: recycle.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
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With wrestling, you can't describe how that connection with an audience happens. I can't teach anybody how that happens. The bad things that have happened to me in WWE have made that connection stronger.
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We fought a lonely battle against terrorism sponsored by Sudan, and we have defeated it; we cannot be intimidated by any force. For us our guide is the Constitution of Uganda and the laws there under.
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These arms of mine, They are lonely. Lonely and feeling blue. These arms of mine, They are yearning. Yearning from wanting you. And if you would let them hold you, Oh how grateful I will be.
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'Didn't Frankenstein get married?'Did he?' said Eggy. 'I don't know. I never met him. Harrow man, I expect.'
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The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
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Alone, adj. In bad company.
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You must warn people not to make the intellect their God. The intellect knows methods but it seldom knows values, and they come from feeling. If one doesn't play a part in the creative whole, he is not worth being called human. He has betrayed his true purpose.
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The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
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Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.
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I love wearing green, and I like grey and black, but I don't think they really suit me.
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The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.
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I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
