Joseph Abboud Quotes
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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Poetry is emotion, passion, love, grief - everything that is human. It is not for zombies by zombies.
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We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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Language is fun; it's fun to try.
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I was a late bloomer. I was 38 when my first book was out and 43 when my first crime novel was out. I had a story that could only be told as a crime story. I think the genre is good; it deals with the fundamental questions of life and death. The problem is there are too many bad crime stories.
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.
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Sometimes when people talk about me in fashion, I feel - I don't want to say uncomfortable, but I still don't believe that I'm in 'fashion.'
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There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
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I get around nature. I have a vegetable garden, and I enjoy being outside. I do work quite a bit around the house.
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There are no seasons anymore. Fashion has become one long run-on sentence.
