Al Kooper Quotes
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Drama starts where logic ends.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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The biggest thing I've learned from my dad is he's had adoring crowds of 8,000 at Berkeley, and 6,000 at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. That's an amazing feat to have people coming out in one of the most liberal universities and one of the most conservative.
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We need the humbleness and clarity to see that our food, while benefitting from technological advances, has benefitted even more from free ecological resources: Cheap energy, lots of water everywhere, and a stable climate.
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David Bowie told me my music sounds like tomorrow.
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Over a spell of about three years, I played a series of roles that were, for me, all very different, but most of them came out within a six-month period. They all dealt with a kind of dark territory that in some cases had been mined before in movies.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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High energy prices are burdening household budgets and raising production costs, and continued increases would at some point restrain economic growth.
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There's such a cynicism about the phrase 'I laughed all the way to the bank.' It's as though money is what you're doing, rather than playing music. If you're playing a money game, why not get into banking?
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What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.
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Better to leave dreams behind and go forward with purpose.
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We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.
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I'm pretty brutal about getting rid of stuff. There wasn't anything where I was like, "Oh, I miss that," because usually it's for a good reason.
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Every now and then we could steal somebody else's stuff.
