Johnny Mathis Quotes
The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.
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For me, the risks in terms of opening that brewpub were fairly high. I put my house up as collateral, I invested the liquid money I had and two years of my time to get it over, but that's really not much of a risk for what the potential reward was if it worked.
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When we understand every single secret of the universe, there will still be left the eternal mystery of the human heart.
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When I first started as a cover band, I built everything based on hanging out every night after the shows and talking to as many people as I can and making relationships.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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The fact that I'm not a good musician - I throw it around, tell people that - it doesn't matter that much. It only matters to me, because I idolized good musicians. I absolutely worshiped them.
