Charley Pride Quotes
What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
Quotes to Explore
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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If somebody told me you'd be a one and a half billion dollar company and be the largest in the world, I wouldn't have believed it myself.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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The strong desire to include every vital component of life instead of excluding part of them for the sake of too narrow and dogmatic an approach has characterized my whole life.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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Nothing means more to those in harm's way than the knowledge that their country appreciates their sacrifices and those of their families.
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All the good are friends of one another.
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There's not really any safe places on the Internet.
Chad Hurley -
I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.
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What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.
