Johnny Mathis Quotes
The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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I genuinely believe that if you want to get in the film business, get in the film business.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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Who do I think was the greatest? This might shock you: Elgin Baylor. He did so many great things. Nobody could guard him, playing in the forward spot. I'd love to see some of today's greats playing against Elgin. They couldn't guard him. Nobody could.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.
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I remember going to acting class, so certain that no one's ever going to know my name.
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The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.
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The thing that means most to me is the joy that my mom and my dad got because of my career... They raised seven children on domestic wages, in a city like San Francisco, and did nothing but work, work, work.
