Quotes by Jimmy Dean - Page 1

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Change
Inspirational
Motivational
Optimistic
Positive
Uplifting
Destination
Wind
Adjust
Always
Direction
Reach
Sails
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God is bigger than people think.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
God
Bigger
People
Thinking
People Than Think
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I better know how to take care of myself.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Take Care
Myself Better Care
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Inspirational
Motivational
Poverty
Greatest
Factor
Motivating
My Life
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Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Marriage
Good Marriage
Good Man Woman
Nobody
Woman
Wrecked
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I won't go hunting with you, Jake, but I'll go chasing women.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Friendship
Hunting
Jake
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I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Church
Baptist
Outside
Ward
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You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Getting Old
Funerals
Weddings
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I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Talent
Anyone
Entertainer
Less
Further
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Great
Sausage
Get
Deal
Great Deal
Put
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I've seen a jillion miracles. They're all around. Every green leaf is a miracle.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Fun
Green
Miracle
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Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Food
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
Love Is
Marvelous
Sex
Love Love Is Sex
Cherry
Love Sex Love Is
Top
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Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Said
Little
Going
Try
Say
Would
Than
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Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Hell
Sinning
Sure
Baptist
Enjoying
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Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little bit better than you said you would.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Littles
Said
Trying
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The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Song
Wear
Helluva
Title
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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Saint Patrick's Day
Ice Cream Sundae
Luck
Lucky
Trying
Because
Once
Going
All Day
Around
Try
Could
Day
Even
Gotta
Least
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Be yourself. Because if people don't like you as you are, they're not going to like you as somebody you're trying to be.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Being Yourself
People
Trying
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Being a nice guy is detrimental to actors. When I first came to Hollywood, everyone was nice to me. Everyone thought I was a nice guy.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Detrimental
Guy
Hollywood
Nice
Nice Guy
Actor
Came
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When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Cream
Ice
Ice Cream
If I Could
Rich
Used
Eat
Afford
Man
Could
Ever
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Somebody said he came from New Orleans, where he got in a fight over a Cajun queen. And a crushing blow from a huge right hand, sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Queens
Crush
Fighting
Revenge
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I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Cotton
Cows
Grain
Wheat
Boy
Oh
Chicken
Houses
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I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Benefits
Broke
Dean
Jimmy
People
Play
Business Money People
Seen
Benefit
So Many People
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My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Band
Grace
Orchestra
Pipe
Scottish
Singing
Tears
Anybody
Favorite
Eyes
National
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I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds, and we catch the biggest, most beautiful bass you've ever looked at in your life.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Bass
Richmond
Three
Life Beautiful Your
Life Most Beautiful Beautiful
Biggest
Catch
Life Beautiful Most Beautiful
Exactly
James
Looked
Most Beautiful
Out Here
River
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I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hands, no gloves. Man, if we did anything like that today, they would jack the jail up and throw us under it.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Men
Gloves
Granddaddy
Hands
Jail
Sausage
Jack
Mix
Throw
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A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Country
Giving
Thinking
Willing
Love Good I Am
American
Anybody
Give
Themselves
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I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Eighty
Irrigation
Lifetime
Sixteen
Texas
Yesterday
Somebody
Money Me Back
Entire
Installing
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
Jimmy Dean / Singer
Clothes
Fire
Laughed
Time Good Me
Time Good Fire
Cut
Every Time
Motivator
Only One Way
Wore
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