#so

In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. ↗

— Charley Pride

#artist #elvis #elvis presley #except #had

It isn't reasonable to expect that everyone in the world is a country music fan. Not yet, anyway. ↗

— Charley Pride

#country #country music #everyone #expect #fan

Singing as a full-time job was not something I had given a lot of thought to and I had no clear notion of the money to be made in it. ↗

— Charley Pride

#full-time #full-time job #given #had #i

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use. ↗

— Charley Pride

#attitude #better #could #else #how

Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#disastrous #free #free market #government #inserted

[Men] prefer the foolish belief and the passions of the earth [to the enlightenment of their souls]. They believe the absurd and shrink from the truth." "No, they do not. They are afraid, that is all. And they must remain on earth until they come to the way of leaving it." "And how do they leave? How is the ascent made? Must one learn virtue?" Here she laughs. "You have read too much, and learned too little. Virtue is a road, not a destination. Man cannot be virtuous. Understanding is the goal. When that is achieved, the soul can take wing. ↗

— Iain Pears

#enlightenment #fear #mankind #philosophy #soul

I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role. ↗

— Reince Priebus

#having #i #i think #lot #play

We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#administrative #colour #course #fire #fit

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#a new day #always #been #behind #bit

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself. ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#himself #his #making #man #many