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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.
Jim Nabors
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I could go on all night about my wonderful experiences.
Jim Nabors
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My life hasn't been the norm. The most interesting parts are before I got into show business.
Jim Nabors
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It's always good to be home.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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I started singing in college just as a fun thing to entertain.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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If I can't afford a house, or afford to keep it, I don't want to have it.
Jim Nabors
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It is often pointed out to me that, in a brief time, I have gone from unknown film editor to star of 'Gomer Pyle,' guest star in two TV specials, and a night club headliner, and that this must necessarily have wrought some deep changes in me.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.
Jim Nabors
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After I sang 'Back Home In Indiana' the first time, I became a Hoosier.
Jim Nabors
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Ray Aghayan told me to be more flamboyant, but I have to be me.
Jim Nabors
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One thing I've learned is when you find a best friend in this life, you better hang on.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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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.
Jim Nabors
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Life for my family was a real struggle, as it was for most in those farming communities in Alabama.
Jim Nabors
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I'm far happier now than when it seemed I was on the cover of every magazine in the land.
Jim Nabors
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I guess I like to sing more than just about anything else in the world.
Jim Nabors
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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.'
Jim Nabors
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Kids are more rewarding than anything in life. They are the most enthusiastic, honest people in the world. And so beautiful. They look at me like an old friend.
Jim Nabors
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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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