Charley Pride Quotes

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

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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.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Music
  • Action
  • Memories

• 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.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • World
  • Company
  • Believed

• I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Death
  • Scared
  • Ninja

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• 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.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Remember
  • America
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Hope
  • Political
  • Revolution

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• 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.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• 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.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• Two days after returning from Montreal, I was training again, and I went on to win two more golds at the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Training
  • Win
  • Again

• 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.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Strong
  • Desire

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Acting
  • Rejection

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Happiness

• I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Team
  • Me
  • Perfect

• It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Work
  • Women
  • Struggle

• The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire

  

  Robert W. Service
  • Travel
  • Fire
  • Belly

• Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Life
  • Up
  • Food

• Because I am a one-legged, black, short, woman I had to spend every day of my life pushing against what society told me I should be. I had to sell my value every day of my life. Confidence is what enables us to push back on reality. Once you get good at that, you can use it to live your joy.

  

  Bonnie St. John
  • Society
  • Woman
  • Confidence

• As an outsider to and observer of the restaurant business, one of the things I most admire about it is the risks people are willing to take.

  

  John Lanchester
  • People
  • Business

• What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

  

  Charley Pride
  • People
  • Country
  • Period