Engelbert Humperdinck Quotes
There used to be Engelbert dolls with sideburns. Now they sell Elvis dolls with the sideburns, but I don't begrudge him that.
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Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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I'm in good shape.
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The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.
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Sed Caesar in omnia praeceps,nil actum credens, cum quid superesset agendum.
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Read nothing from the past one hundred years; eat no fruits from the past one thousand years; drink nothing from the past four thousand years (just wine and water); but talk to no ordinary man over forty.
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I think you have a crossover when you are known to a wider audience and a different market. I've been able to sell out stadiums all over the world by doing my music. I'm lucky to be in that list without having done an official crossover. Now, will you hear me doing a little bit of R&B? Sure.
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The construction of an airplane is simple compared with the evolutionary achievement of a bird. If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
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A culture that only recognizes and rewards the same set of attributes results in less collaboration, creativity, and innovation. If we only reward the loudest voices or the sharpest elbows, then we're missing out on the full range of talent.
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That's part of American greatness, is discrimination. Yes, sir. Inequality, I think, breeds freedom and gives a man opportunity.
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Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.
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I was on Facebook. I was on MySpace. And somebody said to me, You should check out this thing called Twitter. I knew five people that were on it, so I started following those people and seeing what they were doing, and then I applied my own sensibility to it. The more that I shared, the more people started following me.
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Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
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I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union to protect the borders of the European Union.
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Integrity means doing the right thing, especially when no one is watching.
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There used to be Engelbert dolls with sideburns. Now they sell Elvis dolls with the sideburns, but I don't begrudge him that.
