Lawrence Welk Quotes

I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

Lawrence Welk

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• In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Important
  • Politics
  • Details

• We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Stand

• The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Relationship

• Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'

  

  Wale
  • Job
  • Happy
  • Day

• I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Good
  • School
  • High

• Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Singing
  • I Can
  • Means

• However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Dream
  • Alone
  • Speak

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Up
  • Very

• It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Job
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake
  • Enemy

• Some may think fashion is frivolous, but the way I see it, when you dress well, you add beauty to the world. And there's nothing wrong with that, right?

  

  Laura Harring
  • World
  • May
  • Fashion

• How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • World
  • Think
  • Present

• We should not be afraid to go into a new era, to leave the old beyond.

  

  Zack Wamp
  • Fear
  • New
  • Afraid

• I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Why
  • Happy
  • Know

• Even if you have a big tune, live crowds can get sick of it. It's not just about the song but also the staying power and if people have connected with it in a certain way. I know that the tracks I put more emotion and depth into are the ones that have the staying power in clubs.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • People
  • Live
  • Power

• The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Great
  • Explore
  • Greatness

• Esquire, in a July, 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot.

  

  David Amram

• Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.

  

  M. Russell Ballard
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• There’s no copy-and- paste system in foreign aid.

  

  Atifete Jahjaga
  • System
  • Aid
  • Copy

• I never felt that although we were based in Germany, Puma was and should be considered as a German brand. So we restructured it in a way that positioned us as a global brand, with English being the corporate language, rather than us looking at it from a German perspective.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • English
  • Perspective
  • German

• I played a Spaniard. I looked about as Spanish as any other fair-skinned German.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • German
  • Spanish