Sammy Cahn Quotes

My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.

Sammy Cahn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 18, 1913 - January 15, 1993

Topics

LoveTimeMeSingingSomeoneYou

If you can't be persuasive to get people to believe your crazy idea, you can just go ahead and build it.

Jim McKelvey

PeopleCrazyBelieveYouGoBuild

Your children are grown and your career has slowed down - all the stuff that took up so much attention is gone, and you're left with expansive time and space. You have to reimagine who you are and what life is about.

Jessica Lange

LifeChildrenTimeSpaceAttention

Occasionally, you get a nice surprise when someone covers your song in an extraordinary way.

John Barry

SongSurpriseSomeoneYouNiceWay

You know, you can only throw in so many haymakers before one misses and you get knocked out.

Andy Roddick

YouKnowOutGetKnockedThrow

What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

Simon Newcomb

TeacherTrainingSchoolSaidNow

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that.

Tony Gilroy

FearAnimalsChangesEverythingAct

Career politicians manufacture hogwash.

Ron Johnson

CareerPoliticiansManufacture

Nobody talks about housewives anymore! This is what we were supposed to do in the '50s. Not everybody, but in my milieu. My crowd. You went to college, and you got a degree in case, God forbid, you ever had to work. And you better find somebody to marry while you're there, because otherwise, what's going to become of you?

Judy Blume

WorkGodCollegeBetterYouFind

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Demi Moore

ConnectionCareerActingBackground

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.

Costa Ronin

LifeCharacterStoryYouLiving

Knowing what I know now, if I could have chosen parents, I would have chosen exactly the ones God selected for me.

Coretta Scott King

GodParentsMeKnowNowKnowing

When you receive an education, you pass it on.

Clemantine Wamariya

EducationYouPassReceive

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