Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.
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I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.
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It is possible to argue that our present conception of revolution was staked out more securely in science than in political action.
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I went to department stores, and there was nothing that I really loved. All the shoes were too complicated, too crazy, too ridiculous, too extreme. The platforms were so high; the shoes were so ugly, covered in crystals and feathers and crap. I just thought, 'Maybe somebody wants a beautifully simple, sexy shoe that they can actually walk in.'
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Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
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And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.
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People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers that causes the dislocation.
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We are not working out issues anymore. We are working on a parallel universe, with competing proposals, up or down votes.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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I think I rushed and I needed more time with my comeback. I needed more time to get my legs stronger to be able to handle the workload. You can only train for that by pitching innings. You can't simulate pitching off a mound in a game inside a weight room.
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When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.
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I think the death knell for any musician is getting a job that you like and pays enough that you just stay there forever.
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The most frustrating thing is picking up a script and loving the roles in it except the female ones... It's really annoying and something I've striven to change in the industry.
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I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.
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When 'Friday Night Lights' finished, I cried for a day. I have a problem.
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My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor.
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I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.
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Golf gives and takes. So yeah, sometimes you make those putts, sometimes you just miss them. But that's golf.
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I have a very good sense of humour. I love telling jokes, especially on the golf course.
