Mose Allison Quotes

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

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• It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

  

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

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• Mr. Trump, you were elected mainly because you found a way to connect with the average blue-collar worker who's sick of the games politicians have been playing for years. Those same blue-collar folks, who go to church, want to feed their families, have to pay their taxes.

  

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

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• What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?

  

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• It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.

  

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• I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

  

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• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

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• These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

  

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• Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.

  

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• I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

  

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• Everything I learned about the Great Depression was from a college textbook.

  

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• I was born in Lebanon and emigrated to the U.S. and went back. I'd been raised in a French school in Beirut. Lebanon is a peculiar place, so bicultural it goes along with you. There is a Western influence, an Eastern influence. Most people are fluctuating between those identities.

  

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• I never got the opportunity to be romantic or feel romantic with anyone.

  

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• Member for Islwyn was going to have a single currency willy-nilly. He has already made up his mind. The argument that he uses is that, if others have it, we must. That is an argument for a flock of sheep, not for people who are sent here to analyse the problem and to use our minds and our reason to say which course we should follow.

  

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• Could there have been a better role for Florence Henderson than Mrs. Brady? She nurtured everybody. She was so caring.

  

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• The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

  

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• For the very reason that we expect things to be good and beautiful, they won't be. In genuine spirituality, we don't look for bliss.

  

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• All production is for the purpose of ultimately satisfying a consumer.

  

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• If we do win, it will send a message for change across the country.

  

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• And you tried to change, didn't you? Closed your mouth more. Tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake... You can't make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that. And if he wants to leave, then let him leave. You are terrifying, and strange, and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love.

  

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• Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

  

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• I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

  

  Mose Allison
  • Remember
  • Sometimes
  • Impression