Ernest Jennings Ford (Tennessee Ernie Ford) Quotes
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
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People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
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If you expect to be successful, you will eventually be successful. If you expect to be happy and popular, you will be happy and popular. If you expect to be healthy and prosperous, that is what will happen... Always think and talk positively about the future. Start every morning by saying: 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.' Then, throughout the day, expect the best.
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I honestly believe that this is one of the greatest secrets to true peace of mind -- a decent sense of values. We could annihilate 50 percent of all our worries at once if we would develop a sort of private gold standard -- a gold standard of what things are worth to us in terms of our lives.
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Miracles are happening all the time, but if your eyes aren't open and your ears aren't open and your mind's not open and your heart's not open - then even though the miracles are there - you're not!
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Wal-Mart and what Wal-Mart does contrasts sharply with what the Green Party believes.
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Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.
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The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy.
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I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
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There's good stuff going on in modern pop music, but a lot of it is really materialistic and only about money.
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This Life is More than Just a read through.
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I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.
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I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.
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Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The very fact that serious and conscientious men treat them as existing things brings them a step closer to existence and to the possibility of being born.
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I remain hopeful that science, innovation and kindness will come to the fore as things become more and more tense in parts of the world. I think what you are seeing in the world right now is kind of a leveling or an attempt to level the playing field.
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I will not use my legislative powers except in a very limited framework.
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We got together, and Bruce Willis was just a sweet animal, a sweetheart. I tell you, right down to the core he's just a real professional, a real gentleman, and I must say I'm so very happy for him that he's got a heck of a good film.
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
