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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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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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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Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.
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Whether that is healthy or not to you, or healthy or not to anyone, or a doctor, is really of no concern to me. I don’t feel alive unless I’m performing, and that’s just the way I was born.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation. My parents said, "We have a place where we can just be ourselves and nobody says, 'Don't tell me your opinion, you damn Jew, go somewhere else.'" Then you go to this country and other Jews tell you to shut up. It's frustrating. I think that we have a bad government and that some people are fearful. They're going with the class bully. But I really truly believe - you read it in my stories - that deep inside, people have goodness.
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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
