Michael Bolton Quotes

When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

Michael Bolton

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• My biggest goal in life will be achieved when I have a family, when I have my own kids that I can raise myself and bring up based on what I know. I always think it's the wildest idea - raising a whole, entire human is insane to me, and I've always wanted kids.

  

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• The Marine Corps is supposed to be the toughest and most rigorous of its class.

  

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• We've always believed in our music.

  

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• If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.

  

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• What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'

  

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• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

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• I don't write a great song every day. I don't write a great song every couple weeks. It comes in such random times.

  

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• I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

  

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• Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning.

  

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• Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.

  

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• I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers.

  

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• The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

  

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• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  

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• Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

  

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• If, however, you have richer pursuits in mind and know that no woman should be judged by how she looks - that everything she brings to the party is more important than the size of her arse - then refuse to be sucked into the never ending whirligig of self-doubting, self-hating madness that is stop-start dieting and crazy new exercise regimes.

  

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• That is who Barack Obama is - a person of admirable character - and that is who he has remained for me over these last four years. I have not agreed with his every decision, but never once have I seen him break his cool, lose his composure, or abandon his insightful perspective - even during the most serious and/or absurd national disasters.

  

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• I didn't do any designs for 'My Fair Lady.'

  

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• I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

  

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• The Italian gangster thing has become a form of the modern-day Western.

  

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• A university teaches. What does it teach? It must obviously teach all the languages in which the great literatures which have been preserved were written - Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, German, Scandinavian, and English.

  

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• You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.

  

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• When I was invited to sing with Pavarotti, I had about two weeks to learn Italian.

  

  Michael Bolton
  • Italian