"One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to â€œhave a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones."

-- Waylon Jennings

#Awards Quotes #Records Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think doing the podcast may have been one of the best career decisions I've ever made in my life.”
“We're looking for something where we can make something happen: an industry where the competition is asleep, hasn't taken advantage. It's going to be hard to find another Blockbuster, but that doesn't mean you can't have three good companies growing. The point is, we're going to be busy.”
“Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.”
“People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 18, 2015
“The diversity of web browsers tomorrow will match the diversity of ink browsers (aka paper) today”
“Personally I am very pessimistic. But when, for instance, one of my staff has a baby you can't help but bless them for a good future. Because I can't tell that child, 'Oh, you shouldn't have come into this life.' And yet I know the world is heading in a bad direction. So with those conflicting thoughts in mind, I think about what kind of films I should be making.”
“night after night I went to sleep murmuring, 'To-morrow I will be easy, strong, quick, supple, accurate, dashing and self-controlled all at once!' For not less than this is necessary in the Game of Life called Golf.”

Source : Ethel Smyth (1940). “What happened next”, Longmans, Green
“All soils are not fertile.”

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