Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
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I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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But I think funny and talent will always win out; I mean, of course there are hurdles, but I think if you're funny you will get over all of that.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.
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One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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The successful landing on the moon, very probably, is the best story.
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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
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I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.
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I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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You can never have enough talent.
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It's a good question, because to be believable is the only way that you could be successful.
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I write a world where everyone is partly right.
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Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.
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Cancer is so much bigger than a TV show.
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Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.
