Gregg Allman Quotes
The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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In managers, I look for people who can get things done through other people. The most important thing for a good manager is that the people on his team feel like he or she has integrity.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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I've always done things the hard way. I was born like a piece of tangled yarn. The job is trying to untangle it, and I'll probably go on doing it for the rest of my life.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.
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The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.
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A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.
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It took me a long time to accept that I was a writer.
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People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.
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The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.
