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Johnny Mathis Quotes

I would say three-quarters of what I do depends on the sincerity of it. You can croak, but if you croak good, they'll still listen.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: September 30, 1935

Topics

Good You Say Listen Sincerity Would

There are ways that we, as a society, the laws that we write and the contracts we build, can try to actually increase people's ability to reap the reward from their own potential. But we put barriers in front of them.

Joe Kennedy III

People Society Potential Reward Try

I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.

Challenge Me Writing Think Enjoy

When I was eight years old, I got a dummy for Christmas and started teaching myself. I got books and records and sat in front of the bathroom mirror, practising. I did my first show in the third grade and just kept going; there was no reason to quit.

Mirror Myself Quit Christmas First

To be an actor for 30-odd years trying to become recognized, and to end up playing a full prosthetic and a character 3 foot 9', or something like that, is... well, it just shows that you can get actors to do anything.

John Rhys-Davies

Character End Trying You Become Up

It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

Care You Enemy Out Serve Against

One makes a trip by day, but by night, one sets out on a journey.

Journey Day Night Out Trip Makes

Wiseman's films are some of the most pure cinema, and to take a journey in a Wiseman film is like no other. He's been doing it so long, with a body of over 40 films!

Roger Ross Williams

Journey Doing Long Body Cinema Over

Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.

Life Attitude America You Born Way

I play a lot of basketball.

Basketball Play Lot

I was being ridiculed for going to school... But, you see, I had looked hard at the other musicians and the whole show-business scene... They were doing with jazz musicians what they usually reserved for rock n' roll cats: making them overnight successes, then overnight antiques.

Cats School Musicians Doing You See

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

Douglas Rushkoff

Patience Control Sometimes Pause Out

It's true you never know the full depth of a parent's touch in your life until they're gone. Even if you cared for them in their old age, there's never a way to prepare yourself for the death of a parent.

Life Age Death Old Age Yourself You

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