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Charley Pride was a regular feature at the New Mexico State Fair from 1971-75; they raised money and...
CHARLEY PRIDE I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
CHARLEY PRIDE Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never ha...
CHARLEY PRIDE What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer....
CHARLEY PRIDE Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
CHARLEY PRIDE It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or At...
CHARLEY PRIDE For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces t...
CHARLEY PRIDE Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
CHARLEY PRIDE Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and b...
CHARLEY PRIDE When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't ...
CHARLEY PRIDE The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and prog...
CHARLEY PRIDE There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
CHARLEY PRIDE It's a way to showcase themselves and get involved in the community.
CHARLEY PRIDE I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.
CHARLEY PRIDE One thing I've noticed about him is he doesn't get into the social-political discussion of race. I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE When they asked me, I didn't hesitate. I don't get a chance to do many things that aren't so schedul...
CHARLEY PRIDE It's so nice to give back.
CHARLEY PRIDE Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
CHARLEY PRIDE Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
CHARLEY PRIDE Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music...
CHARLEY PRIDE In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
CHARLEY PRIDE Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear noti...
CHARLEY PRIDE Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
CHARLEY PRIDE I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
CHARLEY PRIDE A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
CHARLEY PRIDE There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
CHARLEY PRIDE I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
CHARLEY PRIDE The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else&...
CHARLEY PRIDE I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
CHARLEY PRIDE What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some ar...
CHARLEY PRIDE I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
CHARLEY PRIDE Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all ...
CHARLEY PRIDE No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that wa...
CHARLEY PRIDE I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belong...
LORETTA LYNN I always say, no matter what happens to me as a black man in country music, I can handle it if Charl...
DARIUS RUCKER I had an AM radio and listened to Al Green, Kenny Rogers, Stevie Wonder, Charley Pride and Cheap Tri...
DARIUS RUCKER I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.
JERRY LEWIS Time is always moving and as it moves day night, night day the motion of time is clear, to many peop...
GARY F EVANS... The events that happen in our lives make us who we are ,we can either give in to them and let them w...
GARY F EVANS... Jamie's fantastic with Charley,
LOUISE REDKNAPP APD'deki sorumluluklarımı bir kenara bırakıp Reyes'e bakmak için hapishaneye mi gitmeliydim? Yo...
DARYNDA JONES Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC They're all kind of blue-collar guys, you know, hard-nosed kids. All of them are very strong, take p...
MARK CLIFFORD I kept telling the kids not to give up and they never did. We played with a lot of pride. The kids l...
CHAD DION He keeps it simple and pushes the kids hard and teaches to take pride in your responsibilities.
HAL CHIODO Our big guys-the key is they pass really well. The kids take pride in passing the ball. It's a tradi...
FRANK SCIOLLA A lot of these young kids go in to show their pride, but I don't think they realize the full extent ...
ED ROEHL Acceptance Is The Most Happiest Thing Than Expectation
BHARATH RAO KADAM We keep things piled up inside, even the harshest response seems appropriate.
NCIS A sense of pride is on line. They want to play well because these kids all know each other.
CHARLES BOLES But give up my business? The same business I'd built from the ground up with my own two hands and de...
DARYNDA JONES Do you know how hard it is to diet with a name like Cookie?” “That’s so weird.” I stared off...
DARYNDA JONES You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel...
DARYNDA JONES Where you just possessed?" Cookie asked after a long moment, awe softening her voice. "'Cause let me...
DARYNDA JONES A split second later, my life flashed before my eyes, and I came to one important conclusion about i...
DARYNDA JONES Kids take more ownership and pride with money when they have their own accounts.
DEBBIE PIERCE It's important for kids to feel good about coming to school. It helps build pride in the school. I'm...
JOSEPH MOORE The kids never gave up. They have a lot of heart and a lot of pride. That gives me a little bit of p...
JEFF WALK The future is uncertain, but that can be a good thing.
JENNIFER NIVEN When Charley blew through here, it stripped all the leaves off the mangrove trees, leaving the habit...
PAUL HOLMES Clovis takes a lot of pride in going a little bit farther for its citizens.
ERIC ALLER Everybody's gun shy of shabby construction because of Hurricane Charley.
TIM SHAVE I'm getting a lesson in post-Charley getting construction done.
JAY ROHR Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas...
KURT VONNEGUT All for all, always.
MARTHA N. BECK For 20 years I've been screaming at these guitar companies, saying, 'It's abnormal to pu...
DICK DALE If you are playing in 'Charley's Aunt,' and your favourite aunt died that lunchtime, you...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH All we can do now is play for pride.
JOSHUA TINCH I was busy perusing the suicide notes and waiting for Belvedere's water to finish its treatment when...
DARYNDA JONES It's Charley's Aunt and The Odd Couple rolled into one.
ALLAN CARR You and I are just kids. We've got the best and the worst of it in front of us
JOHN GREEN You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the...
JULES VERNE People really enjoy displaying their pride in their school. It helps get people involved in their lo...
GLENN NEWMAN There's a confidence factor and pride factor. These kids are trying to match what other (Strongsvill...
JOE LYNCH Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way.
"It's three thirty in the morning."
"Okay. Wa...
DARYNDA JONES She looked at me, confused. “He hardly knew me. My parents dated and got married before we knew wh...
DARYNDA JONES That's my entire weekend. I had plans"

"A Vampire Dairies marathon is not plans." She loo...
DARYNDA JONES The funny thing about GPS was it didn’t always send you in the right direction.
I knew that i...
DARYNDA JONES Did you look at the memo?”
“What memo? We’re getting memos now?”
“I sent a memo ...
DARYNDA JONES Well?” she asked when she picked up.
“Do you think we’re really alone in the universe?”...
DARYNDA JONES Cookie saw him, too. "Holy mother of all things sexy," she said, her eyes drinking him in.
"Rig...
DARYNDA JONES You know how you heal really fast?” I stood and walked to the doorway that separated our offices. ...
DARYNDA JONES Hey, I'm going to Super Dog for a quick bite and to pass along a message from a dead guy to his girl...
DARYNDA JONES Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China."
"That expression has never made sense to m...
LISA KLEYPAS 'Tis not the belly's hunger that costs so much, but its pride
SENECA All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
W. EDWARDS DEMING The layout of the building, especially for its age, is great. And the pride they show in hosting an ...
GREG SHAHEEN Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such a time takes flight and, in her absence, wrath p...
PIETRO ARETINO We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS It is the fact that we are all different is that which makes us all the same.
JAIME CONTRERAS My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has nev...
DARYNDA JONES Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of prid...
PORTIA SIMPSON-MILLER Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman came to see our show, We all had a drink before they set off on th...
KELLY JONES For the last two-three years, you didn't feel you had a permanent school. Now the kids should feel t...
DALE BARNES Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Pride is tough. You go to high school, and its 'pride,' 'courage;' it's all thes...
TROY POLAMALU There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON This was an opportunity to bring cultures together for a common love - the game of football. These k...
HERMAN MOORE

More Charley Pride

I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
CHARLEY PRIDE Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never ha...
CHARLEY PRIDE What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer....
CHARLEY PRIDE Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.
CHARLEY PRIDE It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or At...
CHARLEY PRIDE For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces t...
CHARLEY PRIDE Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.
CHARLEY PRIDE Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and b...
CHARLEY PRIDE When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't ...
CHARLEY PRIDE The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and prog...
CHARLEY PRIDE There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.
CHARLEY PRIDE It's a way to showcase themselves and get involved in the community.
CHARLEY PRIDE I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.
CHARLEY PRIDE Charley Pride was a regular feature at the New Mexico State Fair from 1971-75; they raised money and...
CHARLEY PRIDE One thing I've noticed about him is he doesn't get into the social-political discussion of race. I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE When they asked me, I didn't hesitate. I don't get a chance to do many things that aren't so schedul...
CHARLEY PRIDE It's so nice to give back.
CHARLEY PRIDE Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.
CHARLEY PRIDE Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.
CHARLEY PRIDE Until MTV, television had not been a huge influence on music. To compete with MTV, the country music...
CHARLEY PRIDE In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
CHARLEY PRIDE Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear noti...
CHARLEY PRIDE Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.
CHARLEY PRIDE I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started.
CHARLEY PRIDE A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
CHARLEY PRIDE There are worse things than being thought a Republican.
CHARLEY PRIDE I think there's enough room in country music for everybody.
CHARLEY PRIDE The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else&...
CHARLEY PRIDE I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere...
CHARLEY PRIDE Once your name becomes well known, politicians come courting.
CHARLEY PRIDE What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some ar...
CHARLEY PRIDE I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
CHARLEY PRIDE Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all ...
CHARLEY PRIDE No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I s...
CHARLEY PRIDE A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that wa...
CHARLEY PRIDE I think that any given day we could have given them a better game than we did. They're good hitters....
ASHLEY PRIDE We just need to keep doing what we've been doing and things will get back on track for us.
ASHLEY PRIDE I don't feel like we're playing bad all the time. I just think that we're not getting the breaks. We...
ASHLEY PRIDE When you score 21 points in one game it's really nice. Then you turn around and can't get anything g...
ASHLEY PRIDE Gai offers more opportunities for Hugh with her big stable, and you can't blame him.
JOSEPH PRIDE He'll hang in there, for sure. It's going to be a big test for him. He's going to learn a lot this w...
DICKY PRIDE The golf course is playing very difficult and I'm playing very solid. The greens are in such good sh...
DICKY PRIDE My goal is to play and improve and finish in the top-20, ... There have been a couple of rough stret...
DICKY PRIDE The major problem is that the public has been convinced that child abuse is a major problem.
MARY PRIDE Never vote for a candidate whose campaign promises include ‘doing more for children.
MARY PRIDE I thought she could have won.
JOSEPH PRIDE If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
CHARLEY REESE The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been ...
CHARLEY REESE Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the m...
CHARLEY REESE Terrell's a good run blocker. He's very stout. He's very intelligent. He makes a lot of rookie mista...
CHARLEY ARMEY He's starting to show up more and more in the right place. He's highly competitive. And once he gets...
CHARLEY ARMEY He is very impressive. I was in San Diego and he ran the 40 in a 4.3.
CHARLEY ARMEY Bartell is getting better and better and better every week. There's a lot of things that he has to l...
CHARLEY ARMEY This is a good draft class. These guys are all going to be good players.
CHARLEY ARMEY We have senior leadership and they have a lot of poise. [The guys] are not panicking [when they fall...
CHARLEY JURIS Especially considering that the Bruins scored 11 goals on Robinson the previous week.
CHARLEY JURIS Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high ta...
CHARLEY REESE This year, with the other station, we don't have a problem. We have a solution.
CHARLEY JOHNSON For the individuals who are participating, the families, the children, the goldfish, it's a very exc...
CHARLEY LEVINE It's definitely a good way to start. I definitely played the par-fives well. With five par- fives ou...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN [The current success] is a culmination of all the hard work the kids have done. These kids are makin...
CHARLEY JURIS The tribes didn't send you a check and they sell the same things that I sell. Idaho and its citizens...
CHARLEY JONES Approximately 7,000 people have gone to Israel with us since we started. Next year, we hope to have ...
CHARLEY LEVINE (The clerks) get a fair amount of abuse from the customers and some of it light hearted and joking a...
CHARLEY JONES His rehab from the knee has gone along excellent, ... He's running now, and we'll continue to monito...
CHARLEY CASSERLY We've worked hard since we started and all the work is paying off. Most of the players have played i...
CHARLEY JURIS We're pleased to have acquired him. The reason we targeted him on the first day of free agency was b...
CHARLEY CASSERLY I spent about eight months in Vietnam. In 1970, I was in the Infantry.
CHARLEY TRUJILLO There's no gloom and doom here. All of us have been through tough times before.
CHARLEY CASSERLY The sheepskin conferred on a student by a college hardly compensates for the human hide that will be...
CHARLEY JONES We all know this is a guessing game. It's humans evaluating humans, and you know what? We're not inf...
CHARLEY CASSERLY Davis, through hard work, has improved his play from the first day he arrived with the Texans, and w...
CHARLEY CASSERLY [If you thought wholesale changes were on the way for the Texans, you're going to be disappointed. T...
CHARLEY CASSERLY The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex ...
CHARLEY REESE It was a good game. The Chinese played a lot better than they did in round robin. They have improved...
CHARLEY THOMAS Yes I've been told that's inaccurate by a source good enough for me to stand up here to quote it. Ot...
CHARLEY CASSERLY I've been told it was inaccurate by a source good enough for me to quote it.
CHARLEY CASSERLY Anne Arundel County is an important customer relationship for TSPI for numerous reasons, including t...
CHARLEY WALL They're both great players. Young's an excellent athlete, a winner and a leader. I think he'll be a ...
CHARLEY CASSERLY We're probably younger than we have been, but we still believe we have made improvements.
CHARLEY CASSERLY We're getting better every year,
CHARLEY CASSERLY If you have the first pick in the draft and he ends up being a star player, at some point you're pay...
CHARLEY CASSERLY It's good when you can keep a player that has played the amount of snaps Chester has and remain as c...
CHARLEY CASSERLY When David has time to throw, he does a good job. Offensive tackle is a hard position to solve unles...
CHARLEY CASSERLY We had made progress in each of our first three years, and we had a better team coming back this yea...
CHARLEY CASSERLY There aren't a lot of options still out there. But it's like any other position. You're going to kee...
CHARLEY CASSERLY We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never...
CHARLEY REESE The universal franchise is a bad idea. The notion that the destiny of the nation should be put in th...
CHARLEY REESE This is kind of the big game. We practice for this all year. The first punch was just a warm up.
CHARLEY MCDERMOTT It's an enduring dream of Jews all over the world to reconnect with Israel. It's their physical and ...
CHARLEY LEVINE There's a chance. His leg is getting better.
CHARLEY JURIS Last year we had two or three stars ? a couple kids who dominated. This year we have an entire team ...
CHARLEY JURIS David played an outstanding game with three forced turnovers and more ground balls than I could coun...
CHARLEY JURIS Beating Lake Braddock has been one of our goals since we started the program. We needed to play well...
CHARLEY JURIS It's the most popular among advertisers, which is a rating of its own.
CHARLEY JOHNSON It pulls a 5 share on championship night for our prime demographic of adults 25 to 54, a number that...
CHARLEY JOHNSON That's what every professional golfer strives for. It's taken me a little longer than anticipated, b...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I think the last three weeks will be much easier than Q School will ever be.
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I'm trying to keep Couch on this tour, ... I played pretty good.
I hit the ball pretty good tod...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I would be lying if I said I didn't think about it every day, ... The last three weeks, I have dropp...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN It's far from over,
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I feel good about everything, ... I'm ready to [win a tournament] again.
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I feel good about everything right now, ... In the practice rounds this week I played really well. E...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN I feel good about everything right now. In the practice rounds this week I played really well. Even ...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN It's definitely a good way to start, ... I definitely played the par 5s well. With five par 5s out h...
CHARLEY HOFFMAN You never want to lose on Wednesday and that can humble you, but I think we need to go into Friday a...
CHARLEY BOYCE You never want to lose on Wednesday; that's for sure. But, I guess if you're more of a lackadaisical...
CHARLEY BOYCE We irrigated last week. Now we've just got to ride it out. Am I worried? What's to worry about? I ca...
CHARLEY WOLK At this point, there's nothing I can do but pray.
CHARLEY WOLK It's a cosmetic problem. It isn't like a worm that gets in an apple.
CHARLEY WOLK Tell him it's about fishing.
CHARLEY WINNER Joe was the first guy there in the morning and the last guy to leave in the afternoon.
CHARLEY WINNER Not what you were led to believe in the newspapers.
CHARLEY WINNER I go to counseling. I go to counseling through the VA and it's helped me a lot.
CHARLEY TRUJILLO It's OK when you're over there, but it's more difficult when you get home because then they take you...
CHARLEY TRUJILLO There's a tremendous amount of pride and tradition. While we haven't had the kind of success the las...
CHARLEY TOOMEY It's no secret we haven't shot the ball well this year and we came out for 30 minutes and shot the b...
CHARLEY TOOMEY Defensively we hung in there, but it seemed like our offense was playing catch with their goalie. We...
CHARLEY TOOMEY Early on we played good defense, got some great looks [on offense] but just couldn't score. You got ...
CHARLEY TOOMEY I think he's one of the great young coaches in lacrosse because of his great work ethic and because ...
CHARLEY TOOMEY It's unbelievable. It (the ice) was curling awesome and the speed was great, and it was an exciting ...
CHARLEY THOMAS We just weren't getting any breaks. Jeff Stoughton said the same thing heading into the (Olympic) Tr...
CHARLEY THOMAS We can back from the dead here.
CHARLEY THOMAS We need a lot of things. I think we've got a nucleus. I don't think we're as bad as our record, but ...
CHARLEY CASSERLY We spent a couple of hours with him, and you get a little more read on his personality, more than a ...
CHARLEY CASSERLY I think it will probably be April before this thing gets serious.
CHARLEY CASSERLY We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will n...
CHARLEY REESE Nobody should hit .200. Anybody should hit .250.
CHARLEY LAU There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
CHARLEY LAU We're compressing a tremendous amount of work in a short period of time. Our focus is to get the sto...
RAY CHARLEY I think given the tenor of the times and the feelings of some people that it was necessary to put th...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN I guess sooner or later you've got to fish or cut bait. I'll be interested to see what the outcome i...
COMMISSIONER CHARLEY MARTIN Put that into context with $50, it's not an overwhelming amount.
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