Les Baxter Quotes
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
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Peer pressure is something everyone will face in school. You have to really go by what you think is the right thing to do. Turn to the friends you trust the most when you are put in a compromising situation. If your friends are making the wrong decision, then turn to your parents.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.
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Sleeping is one of the more private aspects of parenting; it happens in a quiet room, whereas eating is a more public aspect of parenting. Other people can see it and compare it to what their kids eat.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
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A Big Wave is like a Beautiful Woman.....exciting to look at and thrilling to ride.
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I never want to disappoint my parents, ever. They are people that I always look up to.
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I had lived all of my youthful dreams, but I couldn't think of many adult ones. I finally realized that we don't have many dreams for adults because, historically, people have always died much younger than they do today.
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The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.
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One of these days, someone smarter and younger and more articulate than I is going to get through to the American people just how really messed up the federal government has become. And when that happens, the American people are going to rise up like that football crowd in Cleveland and run both teams off the field.
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I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
