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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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
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I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn't want to let go of what had come to be billed as 'The Total Package.' I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up at the sky, checking if rain was in the forecast. That always set the tone for the mood in my household, whether we had rain coming in or not - we knew the crops would be good and it was going to be a good week around the Bryan household.
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My job is to be a problem-solver.
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I thought it was a very cute song. I just picked them out because I liked them. I wasn't trying to make any statements.
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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.
