Mac Davis Quotes
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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My perspective was always being on a number one show doesn't mean anything if I'm not still working consistently at 40 to 50 and 60 years old.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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These trees and these old people have one thing in common, they're both going in the ground soon!
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
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The United Nations passed so-called sanctions again on North Korea, and they've said they 'will exercise their preemptive right to a nuclear attack.' I don't think this ought to be taken kindly.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I think that ageism is a cultural illness; it's not a personal illness.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.
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Falling down ain't falling down, If you don't cry when you hit the floor, It's called the past cause I'm getting past, And I ain't nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
