George Jones Quotes
I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
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First and foremost, you have to remember that restaurants are businesses and they have to stay in business. And though everyone thinks they want grass fed beef, most people actually prefer the taste of corn fed - it is less dry, more marbled, and less gamey, not to mention much less expensive than grass fed.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquired in the extremities of the earth.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.
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I want to make more films in the heartland, the forgotten America.
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I'm very interested in the idea of unusual museums, ones that are not necessarily contemporary art museums - more like historical collections or house museums.
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As one can ascend to the top of a house by means of a ladder or a bamboo or a staircase or a rope, so diverse also are the ways and means to approach God, and every religion in the world shows one of these ways.
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The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed.
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I tried to be a house painter, but I couldn't stand all that paint all over me.
