Charley Pride Quotes
The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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This is something that I witnessed out on the campaign trail for three years, which is that there is a total disconnect between the rhetoric regarding immigration and the reality. And I'm speaking as a border state.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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In the right context, you can make ugly sounds, different sounds feel right at home.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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Personally, I'm incredibly lucky to represent the 10th district of Illinois, which stretches from the edges of Cook county all the way north along Lake Michigan to the borders of Wisconsin. From the lake all the way west to Fox Lake. It's an incredible district.
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We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.
