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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We live in such extreme times that I think we all have a responsibility to be aware of what's happening and talk about it.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for them. This phenomenon has never been related to how rich, poor, successful or not successful the woman may be.
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Perhaps if you look long enough, for an intent eye there may be a piece of a star wandering in the sky.
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I can't walk very well, but I'm not onstage to do walking. I'm on the stage to play.
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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.
