Jim Nabors Quotes
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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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
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Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way - all the fun and none of the calories.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.
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Soldiers are not policemen, and it's very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It's not what they're trained for, or equipped for.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Fairs are beneath the dignity of art. To stand there in a booth and hawk your wares - it is just not how you sell art.
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As I saw more and more people buying the images that were happy buyers, and people selling the images that were happy with how the market was pricing them, I started to get the sense this could be the go-to place for businesses to get the images they need.
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I've always done guest-starring stuff.
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My first guitar was a Gretsch 6120, and I just loved listening to artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry and Stray Cats.
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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.
