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• Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

  Frank Sinatra

  Eye, Player, Liberty

  Interview with Joe Hyams, reprints.longform.org. February 1963.

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• Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."

  Frank Sinatra

  Simple, Pieces, Honest

  "Read Playboy ... for the Interviews" by Max Linsky, www.slate.com. November 26, 2012.

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• You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Baby, Pain

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• Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
  Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
  Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
  I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

  Frank Sinatra

  Wine, Men, Giving

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Holiday, Years, Musical

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• I believe that God knows what each of us wants and needs. It's not necessary for us to make it to church on Sunday to reach Him. You can find Him anyplace.

  Frank Sinatra

  Believe, Sunday, Church

  Source: www.linkedin.com

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• Trouble just seems to come my way-unbidden, unwelcome, unneeded.

  Frank Sinatra

  Way, Trouble, Seems

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• You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.

  Frank Sinatra

  Romantic, Song, Lonely

  Song: All The Things You Are

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• For my money Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business.

  Frank Sinatra

  Singers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It took me a long, long time to learn what I now know, and I don't want that to die with me.

  Frank Sinatra

  Long, Want, Knows

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• To me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. The witch doctor tries to convince us that we have to ask God for help, to spell out to him what we need, even to bribe him with prayer or cash on the line.

  Frank Sinatra

  Prayer, Men, Doctors

  Source: www.linkedin.com

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• I believe in you and me. I'm like Albert Schweitzer and Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein in that I have a respect for life -- in any form. I believe in nature, in the birds, the sea, the sky, in everything I can see or that there is real evidence for. If these things are what you mean by God, then I believe in God. But I don't believe in a personal God to whom I look for comfort or for a natural on the next roll of the dice.

  Frank Sinatra

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Joe Hyams, Playboy magazine, February 1963.

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• I lived in a plenty tough neighborhood. When somebody called me a 'dirty little Guinea', there was only one thing to do-break his head. When I got older, I realized that you shouldn't do it that way. I realized that you've got to do it through education. Children are not to blame. It is the parents. How can a child know whether his playmate is an Italian, a Jew or Irish, unless the parents have discussed it in the privacy of their homes.

  Frank Sinatra

  Children, Dirty, Home

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• The best revenge is the massive success.

  Frank Sinatra

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• And if you should survive to 105
  Look at all you'll derive out of being alive.
  Then here is the best part
  You have a head start
  If you are among the very young at heart.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Looks, Alive

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• At heart, I guess I'm a saloon singer because there's a greater intimacy between performer and audience in a nightclub. Then again, I love the excitement of appearing before a big concert audience. Let's just say that the place isn't important, as long as everybody has a good time.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Long, Important

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• I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

  Frank Sinatra

  Heart, Thinking, Painful Experiences

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• I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

  Frank Sinatra

  Men, Truth Is, Admire

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• That's life (that's life), that's what all the people say
  You're ridin' high in April, shot down in May
  But I know I'm gonna change that tune
  When I'm back on top, back on top in June

  Frank Sinatra

  June, People, Tunes

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• Love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can't have one without the other.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love, Marriage, Brother

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• For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

  Frank Sinatra

  Love You, Thrill, Faults

  Song: It Had To Be You

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• You've got to be on the ball from the minute you step out into that spotlight. You gotta know exactly what you're doing every second on that stage, otherwise the act goes right into the bathroom. It's all over. Good night.

  Frank Sinatra

  Good Night, Steps, Balls

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• People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Fortune, Parasites

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• I play to all people - all colors, all creeds ~ drunk, sober, everybody.

  Frank Sinatra

  Color, Play, People

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