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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Networks can typically invest tens of millions of dollars in the development of a pilot. And if they put the show on the air and it fails, that's all lost money. There's no monetization of a broken series.
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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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I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.
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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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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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I'm just trying to avoid any future surgery. I'm just trying to stand up straighter. And the hip and back are better.
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I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.
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Being alone is very difficult.
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Write while the heat is in you. The write who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. To achieve something you've never achieved before, you must become someone you've never been before.
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If talk was money, you'd be a millionaire. If thoughts could kill, there'd be no one here.
