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Tiny Tim

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The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.
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Collection: Strength
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I believe that President Nixon was right in what he did at Watergate. Lack of respect for authority and things like socialism are turning this into a weak, effeminate country.
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Collection: Respect
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Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
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Collection: Death
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I always bring my little ukelele along in my shopping bag which my dear, sweet father bought me. After all, you just never know when a song might come along.
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I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and popular music. It's just that the spirits of the singers whose songs I do are living within me. That's why the songs come out in the voices of the original singers. I'm not doing imitations. That's the way they sound inside me.
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Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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I had this old wind-up phonograph when I was a kid, and I'd listen to records. And the radio.
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In this business, you gotta hustle.
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I'm like a pitcher. I'm either on or off.
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I don't believe in Women's Liberation. No, no, no, no, no. Not at all.
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Believe it or not, I'd love to go to the moon.
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I'm a very difficult person to live with.
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As long as you're recording and they pay the fee, it's like a lottery ticket. You never stop trying.
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I hope I don't give music a bad name.
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Don't bury me with anyone old.
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It was not easy to go into a subway in 1955 at eight o'clock in the morning smelling nice and hanging on the rails with white make-up. I could see people nudging each other saying, 'What is that?'
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I want to get a hit record, and I know I can be good in horror movies.
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I am ready for anything that happens.
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I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things.
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Boy George was only 7 years old when I was hot in '68.
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At the start of the '50s, I had short hair. And I was getting nowhere.
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There are a lot of ups and downs. But there are always people who have it worse.
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In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.
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The biggest blunder in the history of this country was when President Truman pulled General MacArthur out of China.
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I keep recording and recording, but they always stay on the rack and never get out there.
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I love the past. I read about the past all the time.
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My parents had to work hard, and I was always looking for a way to make it big - for their sakes as well as my own.
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I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.
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Some of the best things in life cost just $2.
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I don't believe in birth control.
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Better to marry unhappily 100 times than to live happily forever in sin.
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I saw 'Cynthia' five times.
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As long as my voice is here, and there is a Holiday Inn waiting for me, then everything's just swell.
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I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... There used to be open-air buses, and you could go up a spiral staircase and sit up on top. Those were great, great days.
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I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star.
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We hear about the Gershwins, the Kerns, and the Berlins, but there were some great little writers like Theodore Morse, Charles K. Harris, and Ernest R. Ball, who wrote 'Let the Rest of the World Go By.'
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I don't know why, but I felt as if I was always behind the eight ball, so to speak.
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They say I spend too much money, so they take it and put it away for me. What do I spend it on? Oh, old records and presents and things.
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You sing fast and hope to get out.
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I was in Australia in 1983 and did a stunt in a lion's cage.
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We've all got setbacks.
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When a person attacks, it's rough.
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There is nothing like youth.
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As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.
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I think they should give me a spot on 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty' or one of those shows.
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America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War.
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If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.
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I knew that someday I would be discovered.
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Whenever I sang, I said to myself, 'Maybe tonight.' I would never let down, no matter how few people were listening.
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I always wanted to be a big star.
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