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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager. -- Walt Alston
I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr. -- Gregg Allman
A Hank Cochran song in the studio is spiritual. It's like singing a hymn in a church. -- Jamey Johnson
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. -- Joe Adcock
On 'Ant-Man', I took a rubber stamp from the office of Hank Pym, who's played by Michael Douglas. -- Evangeline Lilly
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away. -- Mel Tillis
I played with Willie Mays and against Hank Aaron. They were tremendous players, but they were no Josh Gibson. -- Monte Irvin
The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. -- Robbie Robertson
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use. -- Jamey Johnson
I don't think you'd call me a traditionalist. But you can say I have an old soul, because I grew up listening to Conway Twitty and Hank Williams. -- Scotty McCreery
Willie Mays could throw better, and Hank Aaron could hit more home runs. But I've got enthusiasm. I've got desire. I've got hustle. Those are God-given talents, too. -- Pete Rose
Hank Paulson, the happy capitalist warrior who spent his life pursuing and defending free markets, is now the biggest interventionist Treasury secretary we've had since the Great Depression. -- Charles Duhigg
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs. -- Dick Dale
People I look to: again, Hank Aaron, man you challenged the status quo and the records of the game. Monumental feats in an era where people didn't like that. -- Dave Winfield
I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it. -- Jerry B. Jenkins
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them. -- M. Ward
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. -- Eddie Mathews
When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways. -- Bruce Springsteen
When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well. -- George Shearing
The reason we had an all-black outfield in '51 is Don Mueller got hurt, so Hank Thompson was a legitimate replacement. So what? People talk about, 'You're the first to do this. You're the first to do that.' Don't dwell on race all the time. -- Monte Irvin
A significant event for me was learning Hank Williams, reconnecting with his music's simplicity, which inspired me to inhabit the same territory. It's different, because I grew up on Led Zeppelin, The Stooges and punk, so in that sense I'm mutating country and folk more than a few degrees. -- Stone Gossard
Did ole Hank really do it this way? -- Waylon Jennings
If you like Hank, you'll like Wilder Good, too. -- John R. Erickson
I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams. -- Bob Dylan
My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel. -- Madeleine Peyroux
There was nothing ordinary about Hank Gathers. He was a walking thunderbolt. -- Paul Westhead
I don't think Hank's home run record will ever be broken. There's no way. -- David Justice
I take that back. If Hank wants to shoot Scott, he has my blessing. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
More than anyone else, he's (Hank Aaron) made me wish I wasn't a manager. -- Walter Alston
You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'! -- David Allan Coe
Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'. -- John Green
I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson. -- Warren Buffett
Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
Finally learning his baseball history, on the topic of Hank Aaron and his home run record -- Alfonso Soriano
Country music is full of affairs and cheating; that's where all those Hank Williams songs come from. -- Robert Hilburn
I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away." -- Mel Tillis
I'm friends with Hank Azaria. We were on a show together 800 years ago, and we laugh every single time. -- Nicole Sullivan
One night I was sitting listening to some Hank Williams songs - and they'll change your life in a hurry... -- Charles M. Schulz
There will be a guy in a yellow poncho, his name is Hank, he will take you to the whopper lair. -- Dane Cook
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I gained about 60 pounds when I was preggers with Lil Hank, and I'm desperately trying not to do the same with our daughter. -- Kendra Wilkinson
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album. -- John Green
I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks. -- John Fogerty
Sons of the Dawn is a page-turner, and author Hank Nuwer is to be thanked for enriching our sense of the West with this memorable novel. -- Gerald Haslam
I guess anytime you are mentioned with Hank Aaron, it is the ultimate compliment, not only as a hitter, but obviously, the great ballplayer that he was. -- Alex Rodriguez
Lovelace' was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can't get no better than that, right? -- Cory Hardrict
I play Hank Hansen, a real guy. Youd be amazed at how much information they have on this guy: personality traits, nicknames, favorite color, you name it. -- Paul Walker
Lovelace was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it cant get no better than that, right? -- Cory Hardrict
We try to spread the word about the charity by doing fun little stunts to catch people's attention. Like when Hank Green did a music video for us. -- Patrick Rothfuss
I remember us coming to Denver when Hank was coach and we were up by four touchdowns just before halftime when Hank decided to go for an onside kick, -- Lamar Hunt
Tod or Hank Wessel, Bill Dane, Paul McConough, Steve Shore. Robert Adams, for sure. I'm ready to see what they do.There's a lot of people working reasonably intelligently. -- Garry Winogrand
I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there. -- Leonard Cohen
Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams...all of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times...they're the songs that last through time. -- Dolly Parton
[Hank in the Sex Tape] such a fun part. That's how Jake Kasdan and I ended up doing The Grinder together, because we had such a great time on Sex Tape. -- Rob Lowe
I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie. -- Big Smo
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. -- Charles Bukowski
I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now, I'll have to throw him another. -- Bill Lee
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break (Babe) Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there. -- Eddie Mathews
My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation. -- Solomon Burke
There," ZoÃ« suggested."By the Embarcadero Building." "Good thinking," Chuck said. "Me and Hank can blend in with the pigeons." We all looked at him. "Kidding," he said. "Sheesh, can't a statues have a sense of humor? -- Rick Riordan
The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die. -- Waylon Jennings
You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America. -- Bruce Springsteen
If I'm listening to country, it's Hank Williams, George Jones, Merle Haggard and stuff like that. If people out there don't take that stuff seriously, well, they just haven't listened to it and don't know what they're talking about. -- Buzz Osborne
Henry unpacked the car and loaded himself up with everything they'd brought, little bags and big ones, a string tote, a knapsack.As he started up the driveway, his girlfriend said, Do you have the wine, Hank?Whoever Hank was, he had it. -- Melissa Bank
I went up to his [Hank Jones'] house and there were four guys there: Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Max Roach. Not a bad place to be. Scared shitless, but a nice place to be on my second day in New York. -- Ray Brown
I mean, Hank Paulson is in there [ Treasury] at the wrong time, probably shouldn't have taken the job. He's a friend of mine. But he knows markets, he knows corporations' work, he knows money, and he's got the interests of the country at heart. -- Warren Buffett
What do I have to do to convince you that I'm only using Dabria for one reason, one only reason: Destroy Hank, bit by bit if is necessary,and make him pay for all the things he has done to harm the girl i love? -- Becca Fitzpatrick
If Ford is to Chevrolet what Dodge is to Chrysler, what Corn Flakes are to Post Toasties, what the clear blue sky is to the deep blue sea, what Hank Williams is to Neil Armstrong - can you doubt we were made for each other? -- Lyle Lovett
I had to lull Mom and Hank into believing I was in the right frame of mind to be taken into public. If I exited my bedroom foaming at the mouth and dressed in black LOVE SUCKS tee, my plan would never get off the ground. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The melodies were melodies that anybody could sing or hum or whistle. And the words were just about that simple. I think the stories Hank told in his song fit so many people. Nearly everybody in the audience acted as if Hank were singin to them alone. -- Don Helms
The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair. -- Chet Atkins
I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues. -- Hank Williams, Jr.
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I ever needed to learn on guitar was in my first two years of hungry learning: Scotty Moore, Hank Marvin, Chet Atkins, Lenny Breau, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. -- Randy Bachman
I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. -- Kelly Clarkson
Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If you put Hank and Elvis together, there wasn't that musical difference. But as the Beatles showed up and the English invasion, I think country music got pretty far away from rock n' roll. -- John Mellencamp
There's no question that O.J. Simpson had been a substitute white man in America. He had gained honorary white status. He was not viewed by many white Americans as black. He was not seen as the African American athlete who was rebellious: Jim Brown, Muhammad Ali, Hank Aaron... He was accepted in golf clubs that were very tony. -- Michael Eric Dyson
When I was young in L.A. and I couldn't get into clubs or restaurants, I would call imitating celebrities and get a table, and it would work often. I was either Stallone or Mickey Rourke: 'This is Sly. I may be late, but my buddy Hank will be there early.' -- Hank Azaria
You've got to make your mark. I just want some hank-panky. You never forget who you are sexy vs Skanky. -- Leah LaBelle

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