Lee Trevino Quotes
I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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People have to evolve.
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You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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I feel nothing can push you till the time you want to get pushed.
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Every idea has its time.
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I try not to get involved in the business of prediction. It's a quick way to look like an idiot.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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I sometimes joke, Paula, even paranoid people have enemies.
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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Trump can spend virtually an unlimited amount of his own money on this election, which makes him unlike any of the other candidates in the race. So those who oppose him will have to work very hard to make sure he doesn't win.
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People in my hometown voted for President Reagan - for many, like my grandpa, he was their first Republican - because he promised that tax cuts would bring higher wages and new jobs. It seemed he was right, so we voted for the next Republican promising tax cuts and job creation, George W. Bush. He wasn't right.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.
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They told me I should be making my own records. So I figured, 'why not?
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I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.
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The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald's 'Greatest Hits,' whereas my half-sister, who didn't have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.
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I stopped taking drugs [in 1983]. There were a lot of things that led up to it. One thing was that a lover died. An ex of mine died in a car wreck and I was really trashed when I found out about it and I couldn't cry. I woke up the next morning and I said, "That's it," so I quit then. It was horrible.
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I keep lot of my opinions to myself. My grandfather, who was a gravedigger, told me one day, 'Son, the next time you go by the cemetery, remember that a third of the people are in there because they got into other people's business.'
