Al Kooper Quotes
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.
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The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
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I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.
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Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
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I feel like my mission is to be honest with myself. My mission is to share my truth - share, not give. I think that's what an artist is supposed to do: I think they share.
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What was time but a convention, a habit of mind, a custom of dress?
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I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to he.
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Each moment is a miracle encompassing everything: the joy and sorrow, the failure and success, the disappointment and happiness, the celebration and grief.
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Was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?
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I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.
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I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward.
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Bill Withers, Van Morrison and Marvin Gaye are pioneers in popular music for the last century, and these are people who have influenced me as well, so it's pretty flattering. I've got a long way to go to reach anywhere near what those guys have done. But it's a good encouragement.
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Everybody has weird dreams, but a usual weird dream is, okay, so your mom's driving a car and she's a dog.
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It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.
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The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
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...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.
