Donny Osmond Quotes

• If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

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  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

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• Always surround yourself with people who are better than you. If you're hanging around bad people, they're going to start bringing you down . . . But, if you surround yourself with good people, they're going to be pulling you up.

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  People, Surround Yourself, Pulling

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• You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

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  Believe, Believe In Yourself, Don't Believe

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• Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

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  Sometimes, Shorts, Bites

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• I never smile unless I mean it.

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  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

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  Stuff, Reinventing Yourself, Show Business

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• You're as good as anyone else is, if you're good. You're no less important than anyone else is in the grand scope of things.

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  Self Esteem, Important, Scope

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• A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

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  Mean, Important, Deities

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• My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down.

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  Wall, Attitude, Father

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• Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

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  People, Sometimes, Entitlement

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• I wish I could dance like Michael Jackson. I'd love to be able to have my life exactly the way it is, but with his dance moves.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Moving

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• Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

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  Father, Taught Us, Work Ethic

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• I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

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  Drinking, Grateful, Skeletons

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• Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.

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  Sex, Night, Light

  Song: Soldier Of Love

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• I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'

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  Country, Sexy, Song

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• The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.

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  Population, World, Hunger

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• I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

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  Life, Men, Thinking

  "Big brother" by Tim Cooper, www.theguardian.com. March 24, 2001.

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• I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

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  Fall, Guy, Trying

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• Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

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  America, Romance, Selfishness

  "Donny Osmond reveals secrets to his happy 32-year marriage". Interview with Robin Leach, lasvegassun.com. October 11, 2010.

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• You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

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  Player, Artist, Wind

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• You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

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  Football, School, Play

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• I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

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  Stars, Children, Careers

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• I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.

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  Tired, Sometimes

  "Donny Osmond: Yesterday’s Justin Bieber Is Today’s Ultimate Survivor" by Liz Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

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  Coffee, Juice, Cranberries

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• Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

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  Nice, Simple, Knowing

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