Butch Trucks Quotes
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
Quotes to Explore
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I like the mix of stuff I do. I love movies, but I also enjoy performing live and writing songs.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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Stay away from the sun and remember the skin on a woman's neck, hands and face is sensitive and ages easily, so apply a high SPF sunscreen on those areas.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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We bled writing these songs, we bled in the studio, and now we're out bleeding getting them right live.
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Who does understand life?
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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I believe in music.
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Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'.
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It's not the average people that come to my show.
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Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
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For the first time I saw a medley of haphazard facts fall into line and order. All the jumbles and recipes and hotchpotch of the inorganic chemistry of my boyhood seemed to fit into the scheme before my eyes-as though one were standing beside a jungle and it suddenly transformed itself into a Dutch garden.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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All of our colleges are free in Sweden, but this acting program is the second most expensive education for the government. It's difficult to get in. There are around 1,500 applicants, and 10-12 applicants are accepted each year. I was accepted, and I studied there for five years.
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Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!
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Then the Lord must be mightily displeased with you, because he has led you into the valley of death. Make peace with your Lord before it is too late, because the hungry ones are coming for you.
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When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
