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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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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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 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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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed.
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Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can.
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You say something stupid and the next morning you're in the headlines.
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Not yet, but I do wanna work with Leona Lewis. I love her, she's so sweet! I think she's working on her album as well so I'd love to do a nice powerful female duet with her. I think our voices would blend really well. There's a couple of other people I'd love to work with - like Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Alicia Keys.
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There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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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.
