"I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage."

-- Mel Torme

#Song Quotes #Eight Quotes #Nine Quotes

“Never measure yourself against magazine covers. Every 'perfect' body you see in a bikini is a result of weeks of dieting and exercise. And airbrushing.”
“The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.”
“As a nation we are dedicated to keeping physically fit - and parking as close to the stadium as possible.”
“As I don't know about tomorrow, I never save the best for later.”
“I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness.”

Source : "Women in Business Q&A: Shari Arison, Owner the Arison Group". Interview with Laura Dunn, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2014.
“I hate putting up taxes.”

Source : Interview on BBC television, May 20, 1965.
“if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed.”
“If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word - individualism. I was born with that obsession, and I've never seen and do not know now a cause more worthy, more misunderstood, more seemingly hopeless and tragically needed.”

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