Fats Domino Quotes
I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.
Quotes to Explore
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I went to a couple of Rangers games at the Garden, and someone at the NHL had seen me and figured I was a fan and decided to approach me about having a blog during the playoffs.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.
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The roughest road often leads to the top.
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.
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The world is not checking in with us to see what skills we've picked up, what idea we've concocted, what dreams we carry in our hearts. When a job opens, whether it's in the chorus line or on the assembly line, it goes to the person standing there. It goes to the eager beaver the boss sees when he looks up from his work: the pint-sized kid standing at the basketball court on the playground waiting for one of the older boys to head home. "Hey, kid, wanna play?"
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I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.
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I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.
