Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
Eventually, when I recorded Release Me, it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger - and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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It is a matter of simple fact that Icelanders have always been notoriously indolent.
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I don't like a lot of rehearsing.
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When we do an investment, we always ask, 'Can we affect the outcome? When buying a company, can we have an impact?' That's a different style of investing than a passive investor in the stock market. To me, that's how you're taking the risk out of it. You know what your capability is and how you can enhance value.
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The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.
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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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People don't teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it's something I'd never had to handle, because I'd been rejected for so long.
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My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.
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My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.
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Adopting means opening your home, and heart, to a life you've never known. But there is nothing as richly rewarding as being an adoptive parent.
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Ryan Gosling's, like, my crush, but I don't really pay attention to his personal style.
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I have trouble describing my own style, since it's sort of like describing my own eye color or something.
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Eventually, when I recorded Release Me, it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.
