Johnny Mathis Quotes
I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.

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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Between their rise in the thirteenth century and their sudden fall in the seventeenth, when the line abruptly ended, the Medicis produced three popes, two queens, and many Florentine rulers, and they supported the work of Galileo, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Botticelli - a veritable parade of geniuses.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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Yoga takes what you have and molds and sculpts it, which is a much more natural way to look and feel.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.
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Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.
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There are millions and millions of products out there. You can look at eBay and Amazon. You can look at every product on the planet, but trying to figure out which one is best for you is really the challenge.
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We have not yet reached any definitive view on the precise measures we would propose to remedy this situation."
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I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
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I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.
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I always felt like what I was doing wasn't selling toys; I was making a happy sound at Christmas. When people hear something so familiar, it brings them back to a special place, and that's been meaningful for me.