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

• There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place?

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Firsts
  • Innocent
  • Bystanders

• Fringe' was the first time I realized that I could ever man up in a character and make this transition from being a boy or a young man into actually being a man.

  

  Seth Gabel
  • Men
  • Character
  • Firsts

• My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.

  

  Kami Garcia
  • She
  • Book
  • Mom

• If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can tame one, you can tame all.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Worst

• I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Kind
  • Crazy
  • Film

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

  

  Canada Bill Jones
  • Firsts
  • Sucker