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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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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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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I been trying to clean up my act with my children for a long time. And I pretty much got them all talking to me now. And they accept me as a humanoid again.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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Lots of people speak Afrikaans. It's not a statement; it's just a language that we use to communicate. It has its own flavour; it's got its own slang. People laugh. People like it. They like us being open.
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People shouldn't look at me and think life is one big piece of glamour. That's the marketing, the spin. Life is challenging. But I have courage, strength, and enough good health to see the positive.
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Similar to the telescope or the telephone, television enables us to see or hear things we never dreamed of. When you look at the details, a concrete scene between people is really something incredibly unlikely, something subtle that requires extended description.
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It's just that some people are lucky and people still seem to enjoy the music.
