Al Kooper Quotes
Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on Bob Dylan sessions and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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Polo is the most inviting sport I've ever seen.
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Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse.
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Jobs mean freedom for workers to support their families.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I like doing stuff like, for instance, in the 'Leave the Night On' video, I had on a plain white T-shirt. I just wanted to do something to it to make it a little different, so I just cut a big strip out of the side, from the shirttail up to my armpit, and cut a big red strip out of another T-shirt and just sewed it in there.
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.
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Men's ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.
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Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
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I don't feel that I'm particularly political. I'm interested in politics; I'll express my view if I feel strongly about something, but humanitarian issues, I think, are slightly different.
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Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.
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I have transcended that phase in my intellectual growth where I discover humour in simple freakishness. What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since wherever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapours rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.
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No matter how hard the battle gets or no matter how many people DON'T believe in your dream, Never give up!
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I really didn't feel challenged anymore. I wanted to learn something and be excited again... While it can be a family - that environment is actually a family - in the sense that also you sometimes hate each other, you can't stand being around each other and grudges are held... I was getting cranky on 'Criminal Minds.'
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I am very much a family man.
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Longevity, for a columnist, is a simple proposition: Once you start, you don't stop. You do it until you die or can no longer put a sentence together. It has always been my intention to die at my desk, although my most cherished ambition is to outlive the estate tax.
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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.
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Only through sheer ambition did I end up playing on Bob Dylan sessions and the fact that I could do that is a testament to how disorganized it really was.
