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When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#album #check #company #excited #find

When you do interviews, you have to talk about yourself - and I like to find out about other people. I am so familiar with everything that I do. I've said it over and over again. I think it is boring. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#again #am #boring #everything #familiar

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#derive #fog #good #happiness #illuminating

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#buddhist #close #essential #essential thing #frame

I'm growing old, I delight in the past. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#growing #growing old #i #in the past #old

I've always wanted to write a book relating my experiences growing up as a deaf child in Chicago. Contrary to what people might think, it wasn't all about hearing aids and speech classes or frustrations. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#aids #always #book #chicago #child

I hope that through my example, such as my role on 'The West Wing,' I can help change attitudes on deafness and prove we can really do everything... except hear. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#change #deafness #everything #example #except

At the end of the day, it's about the best interests of the children. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#best #best interests #children #day #end

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#above #effort #lifts #made #others

In our daily lives as programmers, we process text strings a lot. So I tried to work hard on text processing, namely the string class and regular expressions. Regular expressions are built into the language and are very tuned up for use. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#class #daily #daily lives #expressions #hard