Mickey Gilley Quotes
I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
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They ended up spending a total, their campaign plus the independent, about 1.3 million. I only ended up spending about - not only, but I spent about 2 million. But I had no intention of doing that until I was attacked with a negative ad by an independent group.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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One of the first albums that I remember, rap albums I remember really listening to, was LL Cool J 'Mama Said Knock You Out.'
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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Cervantes married in 1584, when he was thirty-seven and Catalina was nineteen. The marriage lasted thirty years, but Cervantes may have spent only about half of them with his wife.
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I actually wanted to be a zookeeper when I was 5.
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Sometimes if you tell me what a story is about in just a few sentences, I can tell you if it's going to be a success.
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And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.
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I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
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It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.
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The biggest profit center for investment banks is the hefty fees they charge for underwriting stock offerings and giving financial advice, and analysts put those profits at risk if they publish negative conclusions about the companies that pay the fees.
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I try to stay ahead of things, if you know what I mean. I take the money I make and reinvest it.
