Bud Wilkinson Quotes
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When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
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Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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I'm a slow starter.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.
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History is replete with ideologies of freedom, justice, liberation of the downtrodden and the exploited, that have been turned against the very people they had mobilised, or that have reproduced the same logic of exclusion and terror toward those whom they claimed to set free.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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We all have ups and downs in our career, and as an actor going through a rough patch, all I can do is keep working as hard as I can and hope for the best.
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The man who tried his best and failed is superior to the man who never tried.
