Mac Davis Quotes
Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I keep wondering at night, 'Will I have a bank the next morning, or will some technology company be doing banking without needing a bank?'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
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I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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The most validating thing was when my picture was on my first bubble gum card. That was in '68 for me. I was finally on the Topps card.
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I cannot salute the flag; I know that I am a black man in a white world. In 1972, in 1947, at my birth in 1919, I know that I never had it made.
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I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.
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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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Every performer who ever performed in rock and roll or even close to it is lying if they tell you that they weren't influenced in some way or another by Elvis Presley. He turned the world around.
