Stanley Robert Vinton (Bobby Vinton) Quotes
I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
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I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.
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You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.
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What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
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And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
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The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
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I've been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.
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You can't expect humanitarian and development agencies to rebuild Syria. There is not enough money. There is not enough capacity. There are not enough skills.
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I would sell 2 million records, a million went to teenagers and a million went to the adults. So, when The Beatles became so popular, I lost a million to the teenagers, but I was still selling a million to the adults.
