Gregg Allman Quotes
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm for it has not yet quite faded away.
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There's something unnatural about losing a sibling when they're young.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
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In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about liberation and about change and progressive human relations. And because of that, I feel like that we're confused about who we're supposed to be and what it is that's supposed to satisfy us and make us feel fulfilled.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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I don't ever believe in violence as a kind of medicine.
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All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
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We don't work with anyone.
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My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.
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When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.
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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.
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Steven Spielberg had a tremendous influence on me through his early stuff. 'E.T.', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' - 'Jaws,' I think, is one of the most beautifully directed films ever.
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
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I focus a fair amount of my time on ensuring that we have a good funnel of females coming into the company and then that we're retaining that as well and making sure that we have comfortable environments for them to be successful in.
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I know how it feels to be the newbie.
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I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
