I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's like somebody's going to take it all away from me and I'll be back in Texas, installing them damned irrigation wells. I didn't like that when I was sixteen. And I know I wouldn't like it when I'm eighty.
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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.
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You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
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I think the kids in school that laughed at the clothes that we wore and the house that we lived in, and then my mother had to cut hair... I think that was a good motivator. Every time they laughed at me, they just built a fire, and there was only one way to put it out - to try and show 'em I was as good as they were.
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The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.
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