Carl Perkins Quotes
After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.
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If I am happy in my personal life, I will be happy in my profession.
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Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and the new milch cow carol their roundelay. So does the veteran hen. The common egg of commerce begins to come forth into the market at a price where it can be secured with a step-ladder, and all nature seems tickled.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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It is better to win ten times 1-0 than to win once 10-0.
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Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
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After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.
