Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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In this digital age, there is no place to hide behind public relations people. This digital age requires leaders to be visible and authentic and to be able to communicate the decisions they've made and why they've made them, to be able to acknowledge when they've made a mistake and to move forward, to engage in the debate.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.
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I am so honored to be named as one of Time's 100 most influential people.
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I get very deep into the writing and recording process.
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I have an 'office,' technically. I never use it. I work on a couch in my living room, with my laptop on my lap, looking out the windows. I love space and green things. And I'm an incredibly casual person. I slouch. I close the laptop and just lie on the couch for a while if I need to think. I put my feet up on a table while I type.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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'Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. But a man may wear himself out just as fruitlessly in seeking to understand the past, if he is totally ignorant of the present...This faculty of understanding the living is, in very truth, the master quality of the historian.'
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When I find a role I want to play, I just go after it.
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I think it is true to say that I am not the first Nobel Prize winner in economics to have little formal training in economics.
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I'm the weirdest person.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.
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Australia has an economic interest in ensuring our cities have 21st century urban rail transport to reduce traffic congestion.
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So the pie isn't perfect? Cut it into wedges. Stay in control, and never panic.
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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
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I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
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I just said, casually, 'You know, I passed up on auditioning for Einstein.' And my friend was like, 'You idiot, you have to do it!' She made me do it. I sent the tapes off assuming that somebody would say, 'Ha ha, very funny.'
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Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.
