Herb Alpert Quotes
The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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The trend in entrepreneurship is up, but an entrepreneur's ability to hire is down.
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
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I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.
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We have deep depth.
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I'm a keen runner, so I try to fit in a half hour every other day.
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Men are socialized to trust women until evidence to the contrary surfaces; women are socialized to be suspicious of men until an individual man earns trust.
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The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.
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For me, the exhausting thing about touring is the sitting around, which is why working on my concert music is really great - and also seeing concerts and seeing friends and, whenever possible, getting out to see a museum.
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That is an important part of my success. Another big part of my success is that I hated not to finish a race.
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My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.
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I kind of feel, in a way, all of us will forever be asking those questions of ourselves: Who am I and how do I fit in in the world and what is all this about? Because those aren't really... there are no answers to those questions, in a sense.
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Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
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The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.
