Johnny Mathis Quotes
It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.
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New York is my home.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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You aren't going to leave me alone are you?
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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While the United States has largely been missing in action from the diplomatic game, the European Union and Iran have been making progress at developing a formula that would lead to the suspension of Iran's nuclear enrichment program and the start of serious negotiations.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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We are all vulnerable to the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of vivid, cognitively available risks rather than statistically likelier, but less salient, risks.
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I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.
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I think if there's something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn't have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please - not that it's not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
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There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
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The Indian government is extraordinarily large, and it is difficult to try and believe that one leader can make all the change. This is a federal system.
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It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.
