Irvin Mayfield Quotes
I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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'Breaking Bad' was such a high plateau.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.
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Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.
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When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.
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Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food.
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I miss my dad, yes. But I try to honor his memory, as well as all the victims of Hurricane Katrina, through the love I have for all humanity, a love I try to express through my music.
