Andy Williams Quotes

I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

Andy Williams

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• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Racism
  • Mission

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Up
  • Start
  • Diet

• I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Husband
  • Voice
  • Turns

• Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Life
  • Respect
  • Short

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  

  Saku Koivu
  • Really
  • Optimistic
  • Confident

• Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • World
  • Live
  • Reflection

• Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Voice
  • Need
  • Solitude

• I believe the House of Representatives is exactly the place where immigration reform should take place. Our entire House is elected every two years. We're the people closest to the people.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • People
  • Believe
  • House

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Faith

• I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Political
  • Responsibility
  • Selfish

• It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Men
  • High

• I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Kids
  • Simple
  • First

• My work is not directly about the social or political.

  

  A. Balasubramaniam
  • Work
  • Political
  • Social

• Indeed, there are so many prejudices against everyday middle-class values on college campuses, and serving in the military and being pro-American just seems to be one of them.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • American
  • College
  • Military

• Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • You
  • Humor
  • Got

• Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

  

  Max Frisch

• I often write songs, and when I do, I usually write quite a few of them. I really have to be in the mood.

  

  Ric Ocasek The Cars
  • Mood

• I began my tale in the hope that I might produce something to interest the young (perchance, also, the old) in a most momentous case—the total abolition of the African slave-trade. I close it with the prayer that God may make it a tooth in the file which shall eventually cut the chain of slavery, and set the black man free.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Hope
  • Interest
  • Produce

• An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.

  

  A. P. Herbert
  • Purpose
  • Never
  • Noble

• For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I never tried to sing like anybody else, fortunately I didn't sound like anybody else. It just happened.

  

  Andy Williams