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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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'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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If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.
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Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.
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If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living.
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
