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Willie Nelson Quotes

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

Willie Nelson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 29, 1933

Topics

Texas Guitar Driving Distance Play

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

Andrew Gould

Want Will Oil More Expertise Still

Born in 1910, Wilfrid Thesiger spent his childhood in Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, as it was then called, where his father was an important and much-admired British official.

Michael Dirda

Father Childhood Born Important His

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Mind End Begin

No one is helped when cultural critics use their voices irresponsibly.

Roxane Gay

Critics Voices Use Cultural Helped

Aside from the poor example it sets, the federal government enables reckless spending on public-employee pensions by offering hope of assistance from Washington if things get bad enough.

Devin Nunes

Hope Government Enough Bad Poor Get

If you're talented and hardworking, great - good for you. You're gonna make it; you're gonna go places. But if you're talented and don't have the work element behind it, the guy that works harder is going to eventually outpace you and outrun you.

Chip Gaines

Work Good Great You Go Places

I remember, I was doing 'Jesus Christ Superstar' in London in the early '70s, and friends of mine had come over from Dublin, and they're knocking on the stage door after the show saying, 'Colm, come on, let's go for a drink.' I knew that if I went with them, I wouldn't be able to do my job the next day.

Colm Wilkinson

Day Job Door Saying Doing Remember

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

Antony Beevor

Luck Wrong Worst Sales Expect May

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare

Great Greatness Born Achieve Some

You go to work, tape five shows in one day and then go home and play golf for the rest of the week and then start the week all over. I thought if something like that came along, I'd love to do that.

Wink Martindale

Work Love Home Day Start Rest

When you give a good offer, people take it.

Piyush Goyal

Good People You Take Give Offer

There's a basis for the war, historically, in the 'Hunger Games,' which would be the third servile war, which was Spartacus' war, where you have a man who is a slave who is then turned into a gladiator who broke out of the gladiator school and led a rebellion and then became the face of the war.

Suzanne Collins

Man School War Face You Games