Johnny Mathis Quotes
When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
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A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.
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I play the game as honestly as I can. If the referee gives a penalty there is nothing you can do.
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If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
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There will be gay couples; it will exist. It is not very nice that people who are married - who divorce in three seconds - don't want protection for the others. The legal system should protect everyone, not just the few people who think they are above everybody else because they are married.
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Accessing capital to start a business can be a daunting process, especially for entrepreneurs who start out with a great idea, but have no real familiarity with the business world.
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I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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I'd have to say the biggest transformation would be my schedule. I'm really, really busy, but it's a lot of fun.
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I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.
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I wore a mullet to the Grammys! I have no fear.
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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
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The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.
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The world is not a rational place.
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I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.
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Racism, in the first place, is a weapon used by the wealthy to increase the profits they bring in by paying Black workers less for their work.
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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
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When you say, 'I'm going to sing it once, and everyone is going to hear it forever,' that's kind of frightening.
