Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.
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Related I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never ... PETE SEEGER When I sing, I pick out people in the audience and pinpoint on them. So if you feel that I am singin... GLENN HUGHES I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing ... PETE SEEGER The power of a label and radio and a booking agency and all that - you never know until you experien... BRETT YOUNG Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie... VENUS WILLIAMS In the last two years, the youngest people are asking me for the oldest songs, ... I'm talking kids ... RICHIE HAVENS I take it that some of you people have heard this song before. GEORGE THOROGOOD I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally m... BETH GIBBONS Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to th... C.S. LEWIS Sing away, ay, sing away,
Merry little bird
Always gayest of the gay,
Though a woodland ... DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in your... VENUS WILLIAMS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always lit... BETH GIBBONS I don't know if you guys have heard this one before, but if you have, sing along, KELLY CLARKSON With singing, the name of the game is to make yourself believable. When somebody hears you sing a so... RAY CHARLES I've been there. I don't know any speaker out there on the circuit who's been through half or a tent... GARY COXE This is a uni-verse (”one song’). There’s one song playing everywhere and we are all notes in ... DEREK RYDALL Directions for Singing 1. Learn these tunes before you learn any others; afterwards learn ... JOHN WESLEY Have you ever heard people say "you are what you eat" I completely disagree. You are what you think! PHILIP T. M. We don't actually have Billy Idol in our show. But we do have what you might call a Billy Idol subst... CHAD BEGUELIN There are people who grew up in rough environments, and you just don't hear about it. And they make ... MARSHALL FAULK How many times have you heard yourself saying 'Later' or 'Tomorrow'? Don't you think that its always... AMBAR HAMID I've heard you say so many a time That I know just the right words to say, just the right lines... SANHITA BARUAH I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to m... T.S. ELIOT I think this happens to a lot of people, men and women, where you reach a point in your life and all... CALLIE KHOURI Suddenly, as one, all the Greys stop talking and gape at Christian. What? Christian is s... E.L. JAMES So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her... VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York ... MARCIA STRASSMAN I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pre... WOODY GUTHRIE In the end it doesn't matter what you do. HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I don't know when was the last time you heard these words or if you even have heard them before, but... PHILIP T. M. I've sung my whole life. I've taken lots of voice lessons and I love to sing. But I've n... LIV TYLER In grammar class the teacher asks her student: When you sing you say 'I sing' what do you say when y... ALBERT EINSTEIN Whenever they sang a certain song in church, I used to sing it the loudest: 'Lead me, guide me, ... MYLES MUNROE I discovered for myself and by myself that there is no self to realize -- that's the realization I a... U.G. KRISHNAMURTI A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgo... C.S. LEWIS A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgo... BERNARD MELTZER A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg... ANONYMOUS I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM Sing a Song before you can Sing some Song ~ SAVE-LAGU.COM Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
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But never a song that you have sung
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ELLEN DEGENERES The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and... ELLEN DEGENERES I was coming home from kindergarten - well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had... ELLEN DEGENERES Don't hold onto things, it will only bring you pain. ELLEN DEGENERES That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it. ELLEN DEGENERES The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head. ELLEN DEGENERES I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and list... ELLEN DEGENERES [• Ellen DeGeneres , who was praised for her graceful performance as host of the Emmy Awards that ... ELLEN DEGENERES We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen ... ELLEN DEGENERES I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, ''... ELLEN DEGENERES I feel sorry for the newscasters you know? We can turn it off. But that's their job and they have to... ELLEN DEGENERES "I'm feeling so good. I feel like a million bucks. I'm focused, I'm alert, I'm zippy and top of my g... ELLEN DEGENERES Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not... ELLEN DEGENERES You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. ELLEN DEGENERES "I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises." ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, ... ELLEN DEGENERES Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that... ELLEN DEGENERES Hello?..Oh, hi Tom. Ooh, I've been dying to see that movie...Mmm no, I just opened up some yogurt. I... ELLEN DEGENERES It's definitely a heterosexual feeling, but it's directed at you. ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah [I'm thirty-six], but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old w... ELLEN DEGENERES I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from...... ELLEN DEGENERES Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up ... ELLEN DEGENERES The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right be... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave ... ELLEN DEGENERES It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school. ELLEN DEGENERES I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got re... ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year... ELLEN DEGENERES Anne wrote it for me and directed, so I was stuck with it, ... We always got along. It's almost gros... ELLEN DEGENERES New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected. ELLEN DEGENERES I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ... ELLEN DEGENERES I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. ELLEN DEGENERES I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getti... ELLEN DEGENERES The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime... ELLEN DEGENERES Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses,... ELLEN DEGENERES Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe's way of saying stop, slo... ELLEN DEGENERES Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen ... ELLEN DEGENERES Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these d... ELLEN DEGENERES You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the lov... ELLEN DEGENERES I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su... ELLEN DEGENERES There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would ... ELLEN DEGENERES