Johnny Mathis Quotes

First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.

Johnny Mathis

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• I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

  

  Pat Robertson
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• We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Peace
  • Justice
  • Accept

• I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
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• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
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  • Journey
  • Discovery

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
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  • Hate
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• In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Old
  • Buildings

• I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Done
  • Want
  • Feel

• I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.

  

  Mara Wilson
  • Country
  • Art
  • Parents

• I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Time
  • Good
  • Crazy

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Progress
  • Life Is A

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • View
  • Doors

• I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Religion

• Panic is a horrible thing.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Thing
  • Horrible
  • Panic

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • World
  • Writing
  • Book

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
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• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Unique
  • Place
  • Special

• Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad.

  

  Frederik Pohl
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Sad

• I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
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  • Heart
  • May

• Dance music is about having a good time, and a lot of dance music is very serious now. When progressive house and progressive tech came along, it was kind of serious, but it's all context as well.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
  • Time
  • Good
  • Music

• I started to work when I was really young. For me, friendship is work, and work is friendship. Those who are next to me and that have been there for a long time are those who can work with me, play football with me, and go watch a film with me.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

  

  Moses Mendelssohn
  • Religion
  • Physical
  • Necessary

• First, I try to take everything away that doesn't matter to singing. It sounds simplistic, but it works. There is absolute focus on singing: producing sounds and emotions that I have always enjoyed. This is key.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Focus
  • Singing