Top 100 Donny Quotes
#1. 'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.
Donny Osmond
#2. I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.
Jonny Lang
#3. I've never met anyone nicer than my mom, and I've met Donny and Marie.
Nick Offerman
#4. I'm a big fan of skilled singers. Some of my favorites are Cee-Lo Green, Donny Hathaway, James Fauntleroy, and Kim Burrell.
Seinabo Sey
#5. Her first thought was of food. The ding meant Donny bringing her food.
Hugh Howey
#6. It's going to be okay. Donny doesn't know it yet, but he just picked a fight with the wrong bunch of guys.
Julian Darcangelo
Pamela Clare
#7. I was 15 years old, taken out into a parking lot on the set of 'Donny & Marie,' and at the time I was 5-foot-5 and 103 pounds - like, nothing. I was told I was an embarrassment to my family and the show would be canceled if I didn't lose 10 pounds.
Marie Osmond
#8. Donny listed 10 Reasons Why She is Nuts
Talking to mushrooms (slime)
Listening to mushrooms (slime)
Seeing mushrooms glow in the dark (ridiculous)
Drinking grass
Eating dirt
Won't talk
Unreasonably rigid and manipulative
Doesn't like sports
Has no TV
Frigid
Sharon Weil
#9. I never had a sister growing up. Donny was the closest thing.
Marie Osmond
#10. Heartburn is how I recognize myself. It's how I know I feel like me. - Donny
Sharon Weil
#11. When you unlock your pleasure, you unlock your power. And that can change anything ... -Sheerah, Donny and Ursula Save the World.
Sharon Weil
#12. I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
John Grisham
#13. When I was a kid, I remember trying to emulate Stevie Wonder's sound, and Donny Hathaway's sound. It's just part of who I am - I'm just a soulful kind of dude.
Elliott Yamin
#14. I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
Lauryn Hill
#15. When I was 20, 21 years old, I had just got married. Put yourself in my wife's shoes. All of these fans all across the world would have Donny Osmond burning - record-burning parties. They would put my albums and burn them.
Donny Osmond
#16. I started learning everybody's riffs, from Donny Hathaway to Jeffrey Osborne to James Ingram. That helped me create my own style of singing.
R. Kelly
#17. Donny recovered herself. Dude, that was the seventh sign of the apocalypse. I'm so not going to class on the last day of the world.
Gwen Hayes
#18. I grew in the inner city, listening to Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, The Commodores - lots of soul music.
Stefon Harris
#19. Andrew Lloyd Webber's version of the Kool-Aid jingle is at once chilling and evocative. Donny Osmond is brilliant as James Jones.
Christopher Moore
#20. It doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you think, Donny boy. Tonight was the best thing that could have happened to you. You will now either get out of the business and lead a normal life,
Ritch Shydner
#21. I love all holiday music. My two favorites would probably be Donny Hathaway's "This Christmas" and Nat King Cole's "The Christmas Song." They epitomize Christmas for me. Those two recordings will never be touched. That's why I've never redone them.
Mariah Carey
#22. With his eyes squinted to slits, Donny reminds me of Clint Eastwood, if Clint Eastwood were eight inches shorter, thirty pounds heavier, less good-looking, with male-pattern baldness, and badly scarred.
Dean Koontz
#23. I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.
Dylan McDermott
#24. I've always managed by walking around. Any CEO or leader who spends the majority of his time in his office is not doing his job.
Donny Deutsch
#25. I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.
Donny Osmond
#26. 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.'
Donny Osmond
#27. And here's what management is: motivating people and putting them in places where they can succeed.
Donny Deutsch
#29. You can be hard on people as long as you're just as hard on yourself.
Donny Deutsch
#30. Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.
Donny Osmond
#31. I've built my success on the idea that a win for me involves a win for everyone around me.
Donny Deutsch
#32. The world produces enough food to feed the entire population. It's a travesty that anyone should go hungry anywhere.
Donny Osmond
#34. I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!
Donny Osmond
#35. You're an island no matter what you do. I think it's very dangerous to use popularity as your identity in life. So you have to really know who you are inside, the core person, and follow what is true rather than follow what is hype.
Donny Osmond
#36. Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night.
Donny Osmond
#37. Celebrity? Oh man, I just thought it was a ride that was going to last forever and when it stopped, I didn't know what to do.
Donny Osmond
#38. We don't communicate anymore. We just talk.
Donny Miller
#39. 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.
Donny Osmond
#42. Thank goodness I had a great family growing up, a great foundation. But I will say my faith, my parents, my family, all that stuff is very, very important. And I'll say that until the day I die.
Donny Osmond
#43. I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays, but I stick it in 3,5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.
Donny Robinson
#44. My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
Donny Deutsch
#45. I haven't accepted anyone telling me what is or isn't possible and have just kept moving along toward my goals.
Donny Robinson
#46. That Bears quarterback is no good. He's washed up. He's 30.
Donny Most
#47. I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.
Donny Osmond
#48. When I think of music, I think of music in its totality, complete. From the lowest blues to the highest symphony, you know, so what I'd like to do is exemplify each style of as many periods as I can possibly do.
Donny Hathaway
#49. To me, it's always what's next and I think that's what drives most very successful people. It's never about the money. I mean that's a way of keeping score. It's about achievement and it's about winning a game and it's about upping the ante.
Donny Deutsch
#50. A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
Donny Osmond
#51. last section), we can solve the equation by eliminating the fractions. We can accomplish this by
multiplying each term of the equation
Donny Brusca
#52. When there's an accident, we all have to slow down and watch the accident. We all have to be a little voyeuristic. I mean, look at the world we live in now, with all these 'Big Brother' shows. We're all a bunch of voyeuristic people.
Donny Osmond
#53. I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.
Donny Osmond
#54. I was never considered cool throughout my teens: a very important time to be accepted by someone, especially your peers. Yes, I had all the screaming women, but the guys hated my guts.
Donny Osmond
#55. Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
Donny Deutsch
#56. I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Donny Osmond
#57. 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.
Donny Osmond
#58. Lovers remain in each other's energy fields for 21 days after intercourse. Renewed with each act. Do the math. Choose wisely ... otherwise you're carrying that stink with you for a long time ... Stop having sex right now! ... All of you. Until you know you're not giving yourselves away. - Sheerah
Sharon Weil
#59. Here's the mark that a lot of people miss nowadays. Producers missed. They leave out the heart and soul. And that's what I learned from Sammy Davis, Jr., from Frank Sinatra, is when you went to go see those shows, you got to know them.
Donny Osmond
#60. 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!
Donny Osmond
#61. Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
Donny Osmond
#62. 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.
Donny Osmond
#63. 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.
Donny Osmond
#64. I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
Donny Osmond
#65. Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
Donny Osmond
#67. I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.
Donny Osmond
#68. I'm like everybody else. I get tired sometimes.
Donny Osmond
#69. Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.
Donny Osmond
#70. The key to success is not purely who's the smartest, who's the best, but also who can say with conviction, "I deserve it." The entire concept is wrapped up in one phrase: "Why not me?
Donny Deutsch
#71. From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.
Donny Robinson
#72. I believe BMX has shaped me into who I am today, so if this journey never would have begun, then who knows the person I would be or what I would be doing with my life.
Donny Robinson
#73. If you can't embrace failure, or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful.
Donny Deutsch
#74. The negative things people say are much more memorable.
Donny Miller
#75. The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.
Donny Deutsch
#76. That outgrowth of arrogance comes at a price: some people don't like is. I take responsibility for that.
Donny Deutsch
#77. Sometimes when you have multimedia, people use it too much. It has to be a tool and not the end product, if you can use it as a tool. The same thing apples when you are recording. We had this problem in the 80's, we got so computerized there was no heart and soul in the music anymore.
Donny Osmond
#78. 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.
Donny Osmond
#79. I look at Justin Bieber and my heart breaks for him, because I know what he's going to go through. He knows it. Everybody knows it.
Donny Osmond
#80. My warhorse has new shoes" - Thomas Van Pelt
Donny Swords
#81. I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.
Donny Osmond
#82. 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.
Donny Osmond
#83. I am not one of these people who spend a ton of time in front on my computer; I see it as very utilitarian.
Donny Deutsch
#84. We have a water purifier, so we drink a lot of it. As a singer, especially in Utah, you have to hydrate constantly.
Donny Osmond
#85. Yes, I have my standpoint, but I try to follow the life of Christ and he was very non-judgmental. It's not my position to judge. It's God's position to judge.
Donny Osmond
#86. I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.
Donny Osmond
#87. I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
Donny Most
#88. 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.
Donny Osmond
#89. I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he might find it a worthwhile experience himself.
Donny Osmond
#90. I go to bed late. My mind starts going at night - that's when those creative juices begin flowing.
Donny Osmond
#91. If the person who runs a company has a belief system and everything he does stays fairly truly to that system, it will attract like-minded people who buy into it and then keeps selling itself in concentric circles.
Donny Deutsch
#92. I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'
Donny Most
#93. There are moments in business and in life when you have to say, "Failure is not an option."
Donny Deutsch
#94. I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.
Donny Deutsch
#95. 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.
Donny Osmond
#96. When you record an album and it goes platinum ... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With the Stars,' everything hurts.
Donny Osmond
#97. The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.
Donny Deutsch
#98. I don't have the ideal body type for BMX, but just with anything, you have your pros and your cons. And being small kind of allows me to maneuver through the other bigger riders and make passes they couldn't necessarily make.
Donny Robinson
#99. I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
Donny Most
#100. Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.
Donny Osmond
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