Johnny Weissmuller Quotes
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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I have always done exercise because I was a dancer, and it is probably good for you. I have done yoga consistently.
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My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.
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All our forms are unique - movies, music and literature - and you have to leave the person who is doing it to do their best.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.
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If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
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Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
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Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
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Mom! It's the cops! I'm gonna get nicked, I'm gonna get nicked!
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A few old men began to say there had been a winter like this when they were warriors, and that it was a year of catastrophe and disappointment. But old men will ever spin this wheel. The summers were always hotter and the winters colder in the days of their strength, and the air thick with epic drama and portent.
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Many a fine SF story uses science or technology merely as backdrop. Many a fine SF story presumes a technological breakthrough and explores its implications without attempting to predict how the thing might actual work.
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
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Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
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I feel Dress for Success is basically about empowering women who were in a disadvantaged situation. The act of wearing a suit when she's walking in the door, it's so powerful - it's about gaining control of their lives and situations.
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I've worked with producers who have told me to lose weight, and I'm not overweight, but they want you to look strange, anorexic, horrible. It's odd. It's like they are exerting a power over women, that they want them to look really frail.
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Treat your body well, and it'll see you through for many years.
