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Jimmy Dean
American
Actor
Born:
Aug 10
,
1928
Died:
Jun 13
,
2010
Good
Life
Man
Me
Try
You
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Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
Jimmy Dean
Life
My Life
Poverty
Factor
Greatest
Motivating
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
Jimmy Dean
Day
You
Try
Luck
Once
All Day
Could
Know
Because
Around
Gotta
Least
Saint Patrick's Day
Going
Your
Lucky
Even
Do what you say you're going to do. And try to do it a little better than you said you would.
Jimmy Dean
You
Better
Try
Say
Would
Said
Than
Going
Little
Being a Baptist won't keep you from sinning, but it'll sure as hell keep you from enjoying it.
Jimmy Dean
You
Hell
Sure
Sinning
Being
Baptist
Keep
Enjoying
Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.
Jimmy Dean
Good
Man
Woman
Marriage
Good Marriage
Wrecked
Nobody
Ever
A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as there is. I love this country. It's been very, very good to me. And it will be good to anybody if they are willing to give of themselves.
Jimmy Dean
Love
Good
Me
Will
Country
Think
Willing
About
Give
Am
Been
Lot
Very
American
Anybody
Themselves
Things
When I was a kid, I used to think, 'Man, if I could ever afford all the ice cream I want to eat, that's as rich as I ever want to be.'
Jimmy Dean
Man
Rich
Think
Kid
Eat
Could
Afford
Want
Ice
Ice Cream
Cream
If I Could
Used
Ever
You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
Jimmy Dean
You
Old
Getting Old
More
Weddings
Know
Go
Than
Getting
Funerals
I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me.
Jimmy Dean
Good
Me
Enough
Always
Want
Anything
I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin' wheat, loadin' wheat, choppin' cotton, cleanin' chicken houses, milkin' cows, plowin'.
Jimmy Dean
Cotton
Houses
Boy
Chicken
Cows
Wheat
Oh
Grain
Little
Worked
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.
Jimmy Dean
Me
Money
Thought
Made
Somebody
Yesterday
Back
Entire
More
Take
Lifetime
Installing
Like
Know
Make
Texas
Than
Going
Sixteen
Irrigation
Eighty
Them
Away
Ever
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can't make any money. I tell you something... no one's going to play a benefit for Jimmy Dean.
Jimmy Dean
You
Business
People
Money
Old
Made
Seen
Benefit
Jimmy
Broke
Tell
Something
Make
Dean
Get
Any
Going
So Many People
Fortune
Many
Play
I loved music since the Seth Ward Baptist Church outside of Plainview.
Jimmy Dean
Music
Church
Outside
Since
Loved
Baptist
Ward
The other day, I said I should write a song, 'When Does the New Wear Off?' I think it would be a helluva title.
Jimmy Dean
Day
Song
Think
Other
Would
Would-Be
Wear
Write
New
Does
Said
Off
Title
Should
Helluva
My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done is by the Scottish National Pipe band and their National Orchestra. It'll bring tears to your eyes.
Jimmy Dean
Best
Eyes
Song
Grace
Amazing
Tears
Singing
National
Band
Favorite
Scottish
Pipe
Done
Orchestra
Anybody
Your
Ever
Bring
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
Jimmy Dean
Love
Sex
Ice Cream
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