Saunders Teddell (Sonny Terry) Quotes
If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
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How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.
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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.
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The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.
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I've spent more money on my theatres since I bought them than I did buying them.
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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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For artists, the majority of the money we make comes from us being on the road and touring.
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We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.
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My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.
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Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anything you can whisper. Don't whisper anything you can smile. Don't smile anything you can nod. Don't nod anything you can wink.
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I learned to be a hot-air balloon pilot to take tourists over the Masai Mara Reserve in order to earn some money and finance the work I was doing with my wife, Anne. We were studying the life of a family of lions for more than two years. Taking pictures was a way to capture information we could not put in words.
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The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.
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Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.
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Two of my sons are themselves filmmakers, and we can't afford them nor they us. They work in the real world and earn money and are pretty good at it.
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I got started in 1995, working in a group called The Cash Money Click.
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I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what's already been there - like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven't been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.
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What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has not already begun. With the Media, especially television, governing all our lives, as they indubitably do, it is easily imaginable that this might happen without our noticing...by accustoming us to the gradual deterioration of our values.
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When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.
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If you can't take the kitsch, get out of the kitchen.
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If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
