Jim Nabors Quotes
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The businessman gets his name on a door. The star gets his name in lights. They both get their names on a parking space.
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It's always good to be home.
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If I can't afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don't want to have it.
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My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
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I'm very happy that I've had a partner of 38 years, and I feel very blessed. And, what can I tell you, I'm just very happy.
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Making a success in show business is like getting a big promotion on a job. You get more prestige, more authority, more money - and you also get longer hours, more work, and more responsibility. It evens out.
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I could go on all night about my wonderful experiences.
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No man has more than a handful of close friends. He may find some of them early in life, some later.
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After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.
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I started singing in college just as a fun thing to entertain.
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People I knew in high school have gone in many directions, as I have gone in my particular direction. They now have different and absorbing interests of their own, just as I have mine.
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I've never considered myself an actor; I get much more immediate satisfaction singing. If you sing good, people clap. On television, you never know whether you've done well or not.
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Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.
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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
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A mother and a little boy were walking along, and I could tell the minute the recognition hit the little boy. As he walked by holding his mother's hand, he said in a real loud voice, 'Look, Mother. There goes an old Gomer Pyle.'
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One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.
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Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
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I visited Minnie Pearl's home down in Nashville, and I liked it so much I asked the same man to help fix up my place.
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An inevitable question asked of a performer who has made a modest success of his career is, 'How has success changed you?' It's a loaded question because it automatically assumes that there has been a change. And, in a sense, the assumption is a correct one. Basically, however, most people remain pretty much the same.
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I was smart or lucky or both. I saved my money. I was on TV for 10 years, and then I spent eight more years on the road. Working on the road is where you really can save money if you put your mind to it.
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I had a liver transplant, then I had a pacemaker put in, then I had a new knee put it, then I had a heart valve put in. I'm almost brand new. I have a lot of new parts.
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I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.
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I'm a farmer! We have a farm that's part of the National Tropical Botanical Garden on Maui, and we raise macadamia nuts.
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I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.