Abe Lemons Quotes
I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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I'm not a very technical musician at all.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a 'big tent' party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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My job is quite suitable for full-time mothering.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
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Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far, did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star, and don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who you are?
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I never substitute just to substitute. I play my regulars. The only way a guy gets off the floor is if he dies.
