Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes

The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.

Engelbert Humperdinck

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
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• People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
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• I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

  

  Daniel Defoe
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• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
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• Life isn't easy, and leadership is harder still.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
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• Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

  

  Harold Ramis
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• In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
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• My mum didn't really let me watch TV until I was about 5 years old.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• I've always felt that Americans are very in the moment. There's not so much melancholia and mystery as there is in France. Everything must be understood. Everything must be analyzed.

  

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• For every two minutes of glamour, there are eight hours of hard work.

  

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• I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17.

  

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• Commerce is abusive. It's very hobbling to always be saying, 'Please let me put this out, this thing I've worked on for years.' It's like a nasty parent saying, 'No! Now go to your room.' As publishing companies got bigger, you felt even less significant.

  

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• I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

  

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• I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

  

  Arjun Rampal
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• There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balance this with a naive approach of promising what we can't deliver. I mean, science is neutral; it's not politically conservative or liberal.

  

  Peter Agre
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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Earth
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• Bean-counting government bureaucrats are free to take race, ethnicity and gender into account when doling out public funds to non-white-male contractors. But God help law enforcement officers, air marshals and border agents who try to use those same factors to combat terrorism and protect American lives.

  

  Michelle Malkin
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• Kitsch is deep in its superficiality. Art is superficially deep.

  

  Odd Nerdrum
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• The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.

  

  Engelbert Humperdinck
  • Job
  • Artist
  • Politics