Kenny Rogers Quotes

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

Kenny Rogers

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • War
  • America

• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Kids
  • Light

• There are a million great books out there if you just go to Google. There's a lot to pull apart. A lot of crazy, unbelievable stuff that's all completely true. I get into little obsessions, and I read everything I can find on one thing, and then I move onto another.

  

  Caitlin Kittredge
  • Great
  • True
  • Crazy

• I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Know
  • Car
  • Everyone

• When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.

  

  Ralph Brown
  • World
  • Mind
  • Thought

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Family
  • Proud
  • Being

• Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

  

  J. G. Stedman
  • Art
  • True
  • Poetry

• You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Work
  • Music
  • God

• The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • God
  • Think

• I think the audience keeps it fresh for me. You just never know – every audience has its own personality.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Think
  • Know
  • Personality

• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Hope
  • New
  • Recovery

• My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Father
  • Best
  • Chemistry

• Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Control
  • Give
  • Potential

• When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Why
  • Change
  • Focus

• I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Myself
  • Acting
  • Losing

• True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Up
  • True
  • Know

• The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

  

  John le Carre
  • Long
  • War
  • Cold

• One of our objectives today is very important for many people, for millions of people on our planet - it is joining efforts in the fight against terrorism and other similar challenges: countering drug trafficking and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, fighting famine, preserving environment and biodiversity, taking efforts to make the world more predictable, more stable.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Fighting
  • Effort

• I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Thankful

• I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

  

  Anthony Marra
  • Couple

• There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Glamorous

• You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Good