Johnny Mathis Quotes
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I don't ever have the pressure of making a hit, because I've never had a hit song, per se. The closest thing to a hit song was 'Shiraz,' and it's not your prototypical hit song, with a catchy hook and all this other stuff.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.
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I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
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In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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I don't listen to my music if I'm not making it.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
