Chuck Brown Quotes
When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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All four majors are definitely a priority.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.
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I am one of millions who have been treated for depression and gotten well; I was lucky enough to have a psychiatrist well versed in using lithium and knowledgeable about my illness, and who was also an excellent psychotherapist.
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There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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When I was a young man, I shined the shoes of Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan! Music was just everywhere like that. And in my family, everyone could play something, and if they couldn't play, they could sing.
