Herb Alpert Quotes
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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I am not into marriage. You look at all the marriages breaking down and all the people cheating on their marriages, and you become cynical. Marriage is nothing but a label.
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I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'm sort of, you know, hideous.
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I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.
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To be among the world's greatest athletes and compete for Team U.S.A. while knowing that the entire world is watching is something that athletes dream about. To be able to experience that was truly special.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
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When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.
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'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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The use of pirated software in China is really quite a sizeable loss to our software producers.
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A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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South Africa never leaves one indifferent. Its history, its population, its landscapes and cultures - all speak to the visitor, to the student, to the friend of Africa.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.
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All I've ever done is try to get at the truth of the matter.
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With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.
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Dignity is different from respect in that it is not based on how people perform, what they can do for us, or their likability. Dignity is a feeling of inherent value and worth.
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I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song. Since I was a kid, when I pick up my guitar it's been hard for me to write some sort of bubblegum lyrics. It's not really ever been my route.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I think President Obama really does get the value of the arts.
