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Jimmy Dean Quotes
American
-
Actor
August 10
, 1928 -
June 13
, 2010
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.
Jimmy Dean
Inspirational
,
Change
,
Wind
,
Destination
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
Jimmy Dean
Love
,
Love Is
,
Ice
,
Ice Cream
,
Sex
,
Top
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Motivational
,
Life
,
My Life
,
Poverty
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
Day
,
Luck
,
You
,
Know
,
Lucky
,
Try
I went further on less talent than anyone, but I was a damned good entertainer.
Jimmy Dean
Good
,
Talent
,
Than
,
Entertainer
,
Further
You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean
You
,
Know
,
Go
,
More
,
Getting Old
,
Old
Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
Jimmy Dean
Life
,
Great
,
You
,
Out
,
Like
,
Get
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
Jimmy Dean
Better
,
You
,
Try
,
Said
,
Say
,
Little
God is bigger than people think.
Jimmy Dean
God
,
People
,
Think
,
Bigger
,
Than
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
Man
,
Rich
,
Ice
,
Think
,
Ice Cream
,
Eat
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
Eyes
,
Best
,
Amazing
,
Grace
,
Tears
,
Song
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
Business
,
Money
,
People
,
You
,
Play
,
Old
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean
Marriage
,
Good
,
Man
,
Woman
,
Nobody
,
Ever
Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
Jimmy Dean
Hell
,
You
,
Being
,
Keep
,
Baptist
,
Sure
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
Money
,
Me
,
Texas
,
Thought
,
Yesterday
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
Chicken
,
Boy
,
Little
,
Cotton
,
Oh
,
Cows
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
Mother
,
Good
,
Time
,
Fire
,
School
,
Hair
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
Day
,
Song
,
Think
,
New
,
Said
,
Wear
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
Today
,
Man
,
Help
,
Hands
,
Jail
,
Anything
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
Love
,
Good
,
I Am
,
Me
,
Think
,
American
I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
Jimmy Dean
Music
,
Loved
,
Church
,
Outside
,
Baptist
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
Life
,
Beautiful
,
Live
,
River
,
You
,
Three
I better know how to take care of myself.
Jimmy Dean
Myself
,
Better
,
Care
,
Take Care
,
Know
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
Me
,
Thought
,
Nice
,
Everyone
,
Hollywood
I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me.
Jimmy Dean
Good
,
Me
,
Enough
,
Want
,
Always
,
Anything
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