Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
I never wanted to be a movie star because it takes up too much of your time. I prefer the style of touring and making new music.
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New York is one of the greatest cities in the world. It is a fitting host to its many international visitors, who can come to witness first-hand what a vibrant multicultural democracy looks like.
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Younger audiences are into me because I did 'Stuart Little,' and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in 'Angels in the Outfield,' a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
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Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?
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I grew up in the classic American-Jewish suburbia, which has a whole different sense of what it means to be Jewish than anywhere else in the world.
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People are still thinking of solving problems by violence and war, and that has to stop.
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Endangered species are our friends.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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What's a hero if not for its journey.
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I like to take my own time, and I don't like to rush. I do take time, and I have patience.
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I'm not going to disappear.
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I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.
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The human race has been in a long struggle to eliminate murder. And we will succeed.
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...What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.
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Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
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I never wanted to be a movie star because it takes up too much of your time. I prefer the style of touring and making new music.
