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.
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I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.
Pat Robertson
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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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
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Irwin Shaw
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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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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
Q-Tip
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
Ingrid Betancourt
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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
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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
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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
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
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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
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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
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Panic is a horrible thing.
Jaclyn Smith
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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
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When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.
Marsha Blackburn
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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
James Huneker
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We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn't mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose. It's a good calling, then, to speak a better story. How brightly a better story shines. How easily the world looks to it in wonder. How grateful we are to hear these stories, and how happy it makes us to repeat them.
Donald Miller
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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