Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
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I'm from Maine. I eat apple pie for breakfast.
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I don't think anybody thinks they're bad, just in life, in general.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
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My favorite actresses were Geraldine Paige, Anne Bancroft and Kim Stanley.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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I've always been interested in the gangster genre, so to play Mickey Cohen was a real thrill. It's always fun to do your take on someone so iconic.
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I started really thinking a lot about where does a country go when we stop being able to speak to each other, when a nation stops being able to solve problems because its ideological differences become so deep that it just becomes dysfunctional.
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I wrote 'My Name is Red' just to remember painting, where the hand does it before the intellect. When I'm captive to it, I'm a happier person. Kierkegaard tells us that a happy person is someone who lives in the present; the unhappy person, someone who lives either in the past or the future.
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The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race.
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Hear the mellow wedding bellsGolden bells!What a world of happiness their harmony foretellsThrough the balmy air of nightHow they ring out their delight!
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I shudder at the concept of a world tamed.
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How many, once lauded in song, are given over to the forgotten; and how many who sung their praises are clean gone long ago!
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Perceived self-inefficacy predicts avoidance of academic activities whereas anxiety does not.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
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Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.
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You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.
