Johnny Mathis Quotes
My claim to fame has always been that iconic picture that ended up in 'The San Francisco Chronicle' of Bill Russell jumping over my head.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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History's a resource.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I can always go back to education.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.
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One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.
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I'm not at all fed up with British films, but I am fed up with playing upper-class people.
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In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give a book report, it was alarming - I'd suddenly be very articulate.
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I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
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My claim to fame has always been that iconic picture that ended up in 'The San Francisco Chronicle' of Bill Russell jumping over my head.
