Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I was doing a scene in a medical tent in 18th-century battle dress, pantaloons and a ripped shirt, and the guy from the crew kept asking me if I was OK, if I was too cold. I told him, 'Are you kidding? I'm from Wales!'
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So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I've lived my life the way I wanted to, whether scaling the mountains, partying long into the night or having fun playing soccer.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
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History class was a forty-minute squirm from which I would emerge unscathed by insight. Down the hall in English Lit, though, there were stories to be had, and it was stories I craved.
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It is a tomb, most famous of the Mughals, whose empire flourished in India between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, enshrining the remains of the fifth emperor of the dynasty, w:Shah Jahan|Shah Jehan| and those of his second wife Mumtaz Mahal. She died before him and construction of the complex began immediately.
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You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.
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It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
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I'm here, got no choice. But you, you should be telling people.
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The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion.
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They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet appeared better in himself.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
