Stanley Robert Vinton (Bobby Vinton) Quotes
Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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Gautham was a premature baby. I remember when doctors said that his health condition was critical, I was tense. I could afford the treatment, but a lot of commoners can't. I believe more children's lives can be saved if we work towards it.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general.
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.
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In Spanish, we have a saying that when a genius points at the moon, a fool looks at the finger. I find that happens a lot with bitcoin.
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When I went to college - when I read Shakespeare or Dickens or Scott - I just felt that, as a citizen of England, a British citizen, this was as much my heritage as any schoolboy's. That is one of the things the Empire taught, that apart from citizenship, the synonymous inheritance of the citizenship was the literature.
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I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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Nobody really thought I was going to make it, because I was a musician. I really wasn't a singer.
