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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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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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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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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What an audience decides about where certain characters come from is really up to them.
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And to the faithful: death, the gate of life.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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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.
