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I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn't think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.


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JIMMY KIMMEL Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
JIMMY DURANTE I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email an...
JIMMY KIMMEL I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...
JIMMY SMITS Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colle...
JIMMY BRESLIN Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat...
JIMMY IOVINE Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.
JIMMY IOVINE My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
JIMMY IOVINE Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
JIMMY BRESLIN I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave dec...
JIMMY HILL The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
JIMMY RUSHING I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN 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...
JIMMY DEAN