Fats Domino Quotes
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.
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There are so many female roles - particularly for young women - that are just somebody's girlfriend or somebody's daughter, or that are accessories to the main story rather than being three-dimensional characters.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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I love New York.
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I love how Shakespeare can really rip your heart out one second and then make you laugh the next. He's a master writer.
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Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.
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Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
