Jimmy Rushing Quotes
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Kids who don't have moms suffer a lifetime.
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You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
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So it's joyful to me, in my 71st year, to be able to be in a play that is absolutely right for my age and my experience, and that is a popular success. What more could you ask as an actor?
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.
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My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
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I think that charity is a tricky thing, because a lot of times, people equate charity with handouts. I don't believe in handouts.
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I wouldn't be happy had I only been a teacher, if all I had done was help young people, frankly. I don't get nearly the joy teaching as I do out of creation.
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I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
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The rich are not born sceptical or cynical. They are made that way by events, circumstances.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym. We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym.
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My greatest desire as an actor is to keep people guessing and not do anything close to what I did last time.
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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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The river is everywhere.
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The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void. We need both.
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Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
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If I'm going to do blues, it's going to be a typical Jimmy Rushing record.
