Kenny Rogers Quotes

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

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• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • School
  • Word
  • Performance

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Good
  • College
  • Summer

• Most of my stuff, I never really watch.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Never
  • Watch
  • Most

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• I'd love to do all types of film, not just comedy, although I love comedy.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Comedy
  • Film
  • Types

• I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Time
  • Think
  • Beautiful

• A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.

  

  Oliver Ellsworth
  • People
  • Long
  • Freedom

• The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Devil
  • September
  • Friday

• Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Writing
  • Small
  • Child

• I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

  

  Idi Amin
  • World
  • Myself
  • Powerful

• The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Progress
  • Human
  • Race

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • More
  • Speech
  • Contradiction

• I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.

  

  Clemence Poesy
  • School
  • House
  • Night

• I'll put my conservative record up against anybody's record. I have a 10-year career in public service, and I'm proud of the things I've been able to accomplish.

  

  Carlos Lopez-Cantera
  • Up
  • Career
  • Proud

• I've been seeing a different side basically all year long. His demeanor is totally different from being an assistant coach and the Maurice Cheeks that I got to know throughout the years of him being here. I expect it because he has a different role now.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Different
  • Long
  • Role

• I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Library
  • Records
  • Supposed

• I realized that it's my own fault that people take advantage of me. I should be around people who cherish my talents, my health, my time. I'm not a pawn for anyone's future business. I'm an artist. I deserve better than to be loyal to people who only believe in me because I make money.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

  

  Kenny Rogers
  • Future
  • Promise