Johnny Mathis Quotes

I was a mediocre basketball player. But I was there, and I could remember the plays. And my basketball coach, after he retired from teaching, would come to my performances all the time. And I was very happy about that, because I was not memorable as a basketball player.

Johnny Mathis

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I know a baseball star who wouldn't report the theft of his wife's credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.

Joe Garagiola

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I do put my questions in terms of the sharpest polarities of the issue. But I don't want a preponderance of opinion over factual data.

John J. McLaughlin

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Never do things others can do and will do if there are things others cannot do or will not do.

Amelia Earhart

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If your mind is empty, it is ready for anything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.

Shunryu Suzuki

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I started out singing covers. I've sung a lot of 'em and love a lot of 'em.

Rodney Atkins

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Poetry isn't a profession, it's a way of life. It's an empty basket; you put your life into it and make something out of that.

Mary Oliver

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I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.

Jared Harris

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Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

Joseph Fiennes

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So many things that happen to you are so dreadful, it's important to have a sense of humour.

Debbie Reynolds

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I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.

Brandon Victor Dixon

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I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Brie Larson

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A few weeks before the jubilee began in 2002, Queen Elizabeth died, and the public outpouring of grief and affection, with hundreds of thousands of people queuing for hours to pass by her coffin, showed how widely and deeply loved she was.

William Shawcross

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