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 think positive. I always think we're going to score. Two minutes is a lot of time if you have timeouts and you're throwing every down. You have to make the right decisions. I've always had great receivers, which helps. It's not just me doing it.
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For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of our peers and our ancestresses.
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Writing a story requires you to understand how the world works, how characters think, how their emotions drive them to do surprising things, and so on. In other words, as a writer, you have to be more than a stylist. You need to learn to become a master of storytelling.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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...You couldn't help being influenced by Dylan.
