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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Bo Schembechler was the best after-dinner speaker I ever heard. He'd even have the old boys in the back of the room snorting and jumping up and down.
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The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today.
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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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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.
