Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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Being authentic can be a good thing in that often people who are fixated on that are also fixated on having very high standards, so they may maintain something they think has tremendous value. On the other hand, most of the kinds of music that I've been excited about are hybrid in their origins.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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You should create a work that is so valuable it might eventually sell at a high price, but you've got to concentrate on how you create that artwork.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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We derive confidence as women from what we wear.
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The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it’s what I now expect for myself.
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I usually play big and mean, big and stupid, or big and funny.
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Of course climate changes. Many changes are due to factors over which humans have no control, such as winds, ocean currents, and sun activity. But the liberals want us to believe that climate change is also caused by gases expelled when humans burn so-called fossil fuels.
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Once you get a kitten, the natural thing you do is take a billion photos.
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I don't ever want to think my time is up as a performer. I have been afforded the opportunity to sell 150 million albums, to travel to places I never thought I would go. I'm going to keep on performing. I hope it never ends.
