Johnny Mathis Quotes
When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
Quotes to Explore
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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I so never went through a bad-girl period.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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There's a difference between being posh and being rich.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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India is at the vanguard of figuring out how to exploit technology and innovation on behalf of democratic accountability.
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An appetite for knowledge is apt to rush one off one's feet, like any other appetite if not curbed. I often stand in the in the centre of the Library here and think despairingly how impossible it is ever to become possessed of all the wealth of facts and ideas contained in the books surrounding me on every hand.
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Underground is underground, commercial is commercial. There's market for both, and both get money.
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I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
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I play for India, I play for the 100 million people of my country.
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There's a sort of sibling moratorium when you're establishing yourself as an adult. So much of your energy has to be focused on other things like work and kids. But when people become more settled, siblings tend to regroup because now you're building a new extended family.
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When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring.
