Canada Bill Jones (William "Canada Bill" Jones) Quotes

A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

Canada Bill Jones

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• A personal highlight was probably when we got a No. 1 in the U.K. and when the album went to No. 1 in America. The top four that week was us, Adele, Guns N' Roses and Bruce Springsteen. It was ridiculous seeing those names there. Being the first band from the U.K. and Ireland to go to America and debut at No. 1 is just unbelievable.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • America
  • Band
  • Firsts

• I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Fool
  • Firsts

• Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Mind
  • Song
  • Play

• My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Firsts
  • Records

• You have to be the first, best or different.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Different
  • Firsts

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake and came out with his shirt all wet. And then we all loved him. In a swoony way.

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Pride
  • Firsts
  • Prejudice

• Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Should
  • Firsts
  • Humility

• Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • She
  • Mean
  • Firsts

• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Children
  • High
  • Dance

• Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Black
  • Cool
  • Firsts

• It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
  • Different
  • Firsts
  • Levels

• Who else would find me at just this moment? First he found me drunk, now he found me cleaning up poo from a barking pony who was about to go into attack mode.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Up
  • Firsts
  • Drunk

• I return with feelings of misgiving from my third war-I was the first American commander to put his signature to a paper ending a war when we did not win it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • American
  • War
  • Winning

• I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Trying
  • Firsts
  • Littles

• Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Information
  • Firsts
  • Doe

• You may not realize initially how many other opportunities are wrapped up inside the first one. After you go through the first door, you'll then discover more doors automatically opening behind that one. One door leads you to another door, which leads to another door, and so one. It's like ten other boxes packed inside one box. The initial door that God opens is your access to more opportunities. But you must be willing to walk through the first one to get to the other good things God has for you.

  

  George Foreman
  • Firsts
  • Doors
  • Behinds

• If design is the first signal of human intention.

  

  William McDonough
  • Design
  • Humans
  • Firsts

• I'm really a sucker for old, old movies. Like old film noir. I don't know. I also really enjoy independent movies.

  

  Boti Bliss
  • Enjoy
  • Independent
  • Sucker

• As I grew up, I played in sandals. I played in flip-flops all the time back in the day. That's why I didn't really care about spraining my ankles. When I first started in the NBA, I loved low-cuts. I can play (in them), because I used to grow up playing in flip-flops all the time.

  

  Rajon Rondo
  • Care
  • Cutting
  • Firsts

• I Know You Care' is about my dad. And I haven't seen him for a long, long time. And my parents divorced when I was really young. And I guess I just wanted a - it was my way of saying that I wasn't bitter or angry anymore. I was just sad and just felt like something was missing.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  

  Yasunari Kawabata
  • Heart
  • Philosophy
  • Moon

• For true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

  

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews
  • Country
  • Enjoyment
  • Happinesss

• A sucker has no business with money in the first place.

  

  Canada Bill Jones
  • Firsts
  • Sucker